Regulation & Governance

Papers
(The median citation count of Regulation & Governance is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand215
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How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice: Underlying Mechanisms Explained42
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries42
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation41
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.41
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets39
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union33
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust30
Testing the Assumptions of History‐Dependent Approaches to Regulation: Comparing Compliant Companies With Those That Transgress29
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement28
Why data about people are so hard to govern24
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States22
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking21
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment20
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi19
Police Cloud: Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure19
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk18
Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand17
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies16
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?16
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Will there be a Nordic model in the platform economy? Evasive and integrative platform strategies in Denmark and Sweden15
How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?15
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations15
“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting14
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Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government14
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market14
Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market14
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure14
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium13
The Polysemy of Skills: Exploring Country‐Specific Approaches in the Knowledge Economy12
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China12
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards12
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change12
Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U‐Space”12
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change11
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech11
Lehdonvirta, Vili (2022). Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MA, USA: The MIT Press.11
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries11
Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across TimeBy Thomas Hale, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 241 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐123812‐811
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments11
Mining for Norms: International Extractivism, Chinese Business, and the Indeterminacy of Compliance in Kyrgyzstan10
The Green Economy and the Global South10
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America10
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Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden10
Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets9
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice9
Mapping Green Skills in Collective Skill Formation Systems: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Danish Vocational Education and Training9
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward9
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector9
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives8
Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds8
The Regulation of Third‐Party Verification Entities in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes: Lessons From China8
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures8
Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance8
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐197
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda7
The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden7
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy7
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.07
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain7
When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance7
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero7
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies6
Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU: The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans6
From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention6
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Skills Development for the Twin Transition: Building Transnational Skills Ecosystems Through Experimentalist Governance6
Compliance in China6
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Jens Arnoltz, The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden6
Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?6
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors6
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Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care6
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking6
Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies6
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations6
The Formation of Stakeholders' Trust in Regulatory Agencies: The Relationship Between Contact Frequency, Media Coverage, and Stakeholder Trust in Regulatory Agencies6
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries6
Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation6
Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID‐19 in South Korea6
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics6
The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition: Economic Specializations and Skills Regimes in Europe5
Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN5
The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–19145
Brandeis in Brussels? Bureaucratic discretion, social learning, and the development of regulated competition in the European Union5
Properties of supranational governance structures and policy diffusion: The case of mifepristone approvals5
Well‐Being Economy in the Visegrad Countries: Lessons for Degrowth‐Oriented Industrial Policy5
Does Distributive Conflict Explain Variation in Green Stimulus Spending? Evidence From 40 Major Economies During the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid‐19 Recession5
Taming the real estate boom in the EU: Pathways to macroprudential (in)action5
Political studies of automated governing: A bird's eye (re)view5
Participation Disenchants: How Online Political Participation Decreases Online Political Efficacy in China5
Corporate Governance in a Crypto‐World5
Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes5
Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive5
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Inducing Compliance: Shaping Audiences' Perceptions in China's Cyber Crime Enforcement4
The politics of supply chain regulations: Towards foreign corporate accountability in the area of human rights and the environment?4
General courts, specialized courts, and the complementarity effect4
Who Supports the Digitalization of Education? New Survey Evidence From Six OECD Countries4
Framing policies to mobilize citizens' behavior during a crisis: Examining the effects of positive and negative vaccination incentivizing policies4
Europe's crisis of legitimacy: Governing by rules and ruling by numbers in the eurozone. By Vivien A.Schmidt, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020. pp. 385. USD 35.99 (paperback). ISBN: 97801987970504
An integrated approach to corporate due diligence from a human rights, environmental, and TWAIL perspective4
Dancing With Restorative Justice: Chinese Legal Professionals and Their Motivational Postures4
Unraveling how intermediary‐beneficiary interaction shapes policy implementation4
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From de jure to de facto transparency: Analyzing the compliance gap in light of freedom of information laws4
The politics of Uber: Infrastructural power in the United States and Europe4
Is the government exhausting its powers? An empirical examination of eminent domain exercises in New York City pre‐ and post‐Kelo4
Greenwashing and Trust via Enhanced Self‐Regulation: The Case of ESG Rating Providers in Sustainable Finance4
Turning Vulnerability Into Strength: How Independent Regulatory Agencies Enhance Accountability and Build Stakeholder Trust3
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Re‐Skilling in the Age of Skill Shortage: Adult Education Rather Than Active Labor Market Policy3
Are Rule Violating Corporations Specialist or Generalist Perpetrators? A Quantitative Exploration Based on Regulatory Inspection Data3
Decarbonization Politics for All: Means‐Tested Social Assistance, Eco‐Social Values, and Public Support for Increased Fossil Fuel Taxes in Europe3
Traceability and foreign corporate accountability in mineral supply chains3
The Role of Political Actors in Realizing Sustainable European Energy Markets: Insights From the Trinational Upper Rhine Region3
Preventing construction deaths: The role of public policies3
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On the Design of a European Health Union: Public Preferences, Trust, and Experience With the Covid‐19 Crisis3
More control–less agency slack? Principal control and the risk of agency slack in international organizations3
Coaxing Compliance: Ethiopian Lawyers, Chinese Companies, and the Cultivation of Respect3
“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories3
Is Warmth More Persuasive? The Effects of Street‐Level Bureaucrats' Warmth and Competence on Citizens' Compliance During Pandemic Emergencies3
European administrative networks during times of crisis: Exploring the temporal development of the internal market network SOLVIT3
How to Govern the Confidence Machine?3
Mechanisms of regulatory capture: Testing claims of industry influence in the case of Vioxx3
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The Limits of Interest: Moral economy and public engagement in the regulation of derivatives in the United States3
Coen, David, Katsaitis, Alexander, and Vannoni, Matia (2021). Business Lobbying in the European Union. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.2
The difficult road to a better competition policy: How do competition authorities reforms affect antitrust effectiveness?2
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How Public Investments in Childcare Mitigate Childbirth Effects on Employment Transitions by Skill Level in Europe2
Procedural constraints and regulatory ossification in the US states2
Extracting and classifying exceptional COVID‐19 measures from multilingual legal texts: The merits and limitations of automated approaches2
Foreign corporate accountability: The contested institutionalization of mandatory due diligence in France and Germany2
From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy2
Due Diligence Regulation and Sustainability Governance in Value Chains: Lessons From the South African Wine Sector2
Is Less More? Field Evidence on the Impact of Anti‐Bribery Policies on Employee Knowledge and Corrupt Behavior2
In the Eye of the Storm? A Quantitative Content Analysis on the Influence of Surrogate Inspectorates on Media Frames2
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Competing Under Oath: Can Honesty Pledges Reduce Cheating in Competitive Environments?2
Using the institutional grammar to understand collective resource management in a heterogenous cooperative facing external shocks2
Steering the Green Transition in the European Union? Analysis of the European Commission's Strategic Communication2
Incorporating equity and justice concerns in regulation2
The Governor's Dilemma and Regime Complexity: Diversification and Differentiation2
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Trusting organizational law2
Expert network interaction in the European Medicines Agency2
“Carrying the black pot”: Food safety and risk in China's reactive regulatory state2
Realizing a blockchain solution without blockchain? Blockchain, solutionism, and trust2
Emotions, crisis, and institutions: Explaining compliance with COVID‐19 regulations2
Integrating ecosocial policies through polycentric governance: A study of the green transformation of Danish vocational education and training2
Digital sustainability assurance governing global value chains: The case of aquaculture1
Regulatory overlap: A systematic quantitative literature review1
Policy Growth and Its Impacts on Policy Implementation: Changes, Challenges and Chances1
Regulating the retirement age—Lessons from Nordic pension policy approaches1
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Jordan, Andrew and Gravey, Viviane (2021). Environmental policy in the EU: Actors, institutions and processes. London, UK: Routledge.1
Trust, Crisis, and Delegation: A Comparative Analysis of Public Health Authorities During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic1
Responding to Regulatory Feedback: Financial Capacity, Revenue Expectations, and Firms' Responses to the Authority's Recommendations1
The stealth legitimization of a controversial policy tool: Statistical profiling in French Public Employment Service1
Stay or exit: How do international nongovernmental organizations respond to institutional pressures under authoritarianism?1
Self‐Legitimacy and the Moral Authority to Inspect: A Qualitative Study of Probation Inspectors in England and Wales1
Braithwaite, John (2022). Macrocriminology and freedom. Canberra, Australia: Australia National University Press.1
Regulating Uncertainty: The Importance of Trust and Affect in the Regulation of AI in The Netherlands1
Balancing Between Extremes: Goal Ambiguity‐Based Strategies to Contain Goal Displacement in Regulatory Enforcement Agencies1
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Performing central bank independence: The Bank of England's communicative financial stability strategy1
Beyond Deterrence: Experimental Study of Factors Influencing Perceived Legitimacy and Compliance With Mandatory Vaccination1
Unraveling Complex Impacts Pathways of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive in Global Textile Value Chains: A European Perspective1
The governance of policy integration and policy coordination through joined‐up government: How subnational levels counteract siloism and fragmentation within Swedish migration policy1
Regulating via Conditionality: The Instruments of the New Industrial Policy1
Financialization and an emerging “green investor state”: Examining China's use of state‐backed funds for green transition1
Problem exposure and problem solving: The impact of regulatory regimes on citizens' trust in regulated sectors1
Mapping bureaucratic overload: Dynamics and drivers in media coverage across three European countries1
The voice of implementation: Exploring the link between street‐level integration and sectoral policy outcomes1
Regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems: Searching for African Solutions to Regional and Global Problems1
Proactive State Involvement and Institutional Layering in Social Media Regulation: The Case of South Korea1
Navigating the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: How Multinational Enterprises Approach Regulatory Familiarization in the Chocolate Sector1
Legal Brokers of Chinese Investment in Cambodia: Compliance Between Contract and Culture1
Come together: Does network management make a difference for collaborative implementation performance in the context of sudden policy growth?1
Norms, institutions, and digital veils of uncertainty—Do network protocols need trust anyway?1
Taking Eco‐Social Risks Seriously: Explaining the Introduction of Compulsory Insurance for Natural Hazards1
Noncompliance with the law as institutional maintenance at ultra‐religious schools1
Caught in quicksand? Compliance and legitimacy challenges in using regulatory sandboxes to manage emerging technologies1
Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf: Authority foundations, policy instruments, and the making of security1
State Intervention in Vocational Education: Training for the Digital and Green Transitions1
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Support for behavioral nudges versus alternative policy instruments and their perceived fairness and efficacy1
The Resilience of New Public Management. By IrvineLapsley and PeterMiller, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 400 pp. $145 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐888381‐41
Reputation management as an interplay of structure and agency: A strategic‐relational approach1
Responding to Information‐Based Regulation: A Behavioral Analysis of the UK's Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme1
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