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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand307
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Defensive Compliance in Corporate Criminal Justice: Effects of Compliance Programs on Organizational Prosecution and Punishment57
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union52
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation49
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries46
Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II44
How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice: Underlying Mechanisms Explained42
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust41
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets39
The Diffusion of International Environmental Agreements: The Role of Learning, Competition and Emulation34
Hybridity of Accountability Logics in Voluntary Sustainability Governance: The Case of Commitment 205033
Testing the Assumptions of History‐Dependent Approaches to Regulation: Comparing Compliant Companies With Those That Transgress31
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States31
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking30
Police Cloud : Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure30
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi24
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment23
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement23
Why data about people are so hard to govern22
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure21
Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand21
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk21
Supervising Your In‐Group? How Social Identification Shapes Financial Sector Regulatory Leniency20
How Well Do Governments Assess the Distributional Impacts of Policy?20
Why Do Eastern African Countries Comply With OECD Tax Norms? How Network Effects Shape Policy Transfer in Anti‐Profit Shifting Governance19
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies18
Governing Without Enforcing: Foundational Legal Infrastructure and the Capacity–Justiciability Gap in AI Rights Protection18
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?18
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market17
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How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?17
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations17
“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting16
Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U‐Space”16
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Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government15
Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market14
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries14
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium14
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China14
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards13
The Polysemy of Skills: Exploring Country‐Specific Approaches in the Knowledge Economy13
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change13
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments12
Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across TimeBy Thomas Hale, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 241 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐123812‐812
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech12
Lehdonvirta, Vili (2022). Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MA, USA: The MIT Press.12
Mining for Norms: International Extractivism, Chinese Business, and the Indeterminacy of Compliance in Kyrgyzstan11
Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden11
The Many Shades of Clouds: How Law Fails (Us) in Seeing Power in the Digital Economy11
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America11
Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance11
Effectiveness of Regulatory Sandboxes in Financial Services: A Systematic Review10
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward10
The Green Economy and the Global South10
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector10
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change10
Mapping Green Skills in Collective Skill Formation Systems: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Danish Vocational Education and Training10
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Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice9
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy9
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero9
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.09
The Regulation of Third‐Party Verification Entities in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes: Lessons From China9
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐199
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives9
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain8
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda8
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies8
From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention8
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
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Beyond Universal Cooperation: Domain‐Specific Mechanisms of Citizen Compliance Across Taxation, Health, and Environmental Regulation7
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The Formation of Stakeholders' Trust in Regulatory Agencies: The Relationship Between Contact Frequency, Media Coverage, and Stakeholder Trust in Regulatory Agencies7
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors7
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries7
Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU : The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans7
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations7
Jens Arnoltz, The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden7
Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?7
Skills Development for the Twin Transition: Building Transnational Skills Ecosystems Through Experimentalist Governance6
Taming the real estate boom in the EU: Pathways to macroprudential (in)action6
Virtues of Regulatory Criminology6
Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation6
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics6
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Brandeis in Brussels? Bureaucratic discretion, social learning, and the development of regulated competition in the European Union6
Does Distributive Conflict Explain Variation in Green Stimulus Spending? Evidence From 40 Major Economies During the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid‐19 Recession6
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking6
Compliance in China6
The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–19146
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care6
Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID ‐19 in South Korea6
Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies6
Political studies of automated governing: A bird's eye (re)view5
The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition: Economic Specializations and Skills Regimes in Europe5
In Vain or Virtue? Explaining Pesticide Reduction Ambitions in the EU Common Agricultural Policy National Strategic Plans5
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: 97801987970505
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
Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive5
The Price of Prosperity? A Historical Account of Regulating Industrial Pollution in the Netherlands5
Inducing Compliance: Shaping Audiences' Perceptions in China's Cyber Crime Enforcement5
Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN5
Corporate Governance in a Crypto‐World5
Unraveling how intermediary‐beneficiary interaction shapes policy implementation4
The politics of supply chain regulations: Towards foreign corporate accountability in the area of human rights and the environment?4
Toward Transparent Global Governance? Human Rights Due Diligence in the European Union4
Collective Corporate Power and the International Maritime Organization ( IMO )4
“Hitting the Target, but Missing the Point” in Regulatory Impact Assessments: Does Bureaucratization Lead to Better RIAs ?4
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How to Govern the Confidence Machine?4
Are Rule Violating Corporations Specialist or Generalist Perpetrators? A Quantitative Exploration Based on Regulatory Inspection Data4
Dancing With Restorative Justice: Chinese Legal Professionals and Their Motivational Postures4
European administrative networks during times of crisis: Exploring the temporal development of the internal market network SOLVIT4
From de jure to de facto transparency: Analyzing the compliance gap in light of freedom of information laws4
Transparency or Access? E‐Procurement's Two Paths to Integrity: Evidence From Italy4
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Is Warmth More Persuasive? The Effects of Street‐Level Bureaucrats' Warmth and Competence on Citizens' Compliance During Pandemic Emergencies4
Strengthening Trust by Design: A QCA Study of Design Choices in Regulatory Regimes4
The Need for Improved Public Transparency in the Era of Due Diligence Regulations4
On the Design of a European Health Union: Public Preferences, Trust, and Experience With the Covid‐19 Crisis4
Who Supports the Digitalization of Education? New Survey Evidence From Six OECD Countries4
Participation Disenchants: How Online Political Participation Decreases Online Political Efficacy in China4
Greenwashing and Trust via Enhanced Self‐Regulation: The Case of ESG Rating Providers in Sustainable Finance4
An integrated approach to corporate due diligence from a human rights, environmental, and TWAIL perspective4
Competing Under Oath: Can Honesty Pledges Reduce Cheating in Competitive Environments?4
More control–less agency slack? Principal control and the risk of agency slack in international organizations4
Re‐Skilling in the Age of Skill Shortage: Adult Education Rather Than Active Labor Market Policy4
Mechanisms of regulatory capture: Testing claims of industry influence in the case of Vioxx4
Measuring and Explaining the Robustness of Party Ethics Self‐Regulation4
The Role of Political Actors in Realizing Sustainable European Energy Markets: Insights From the Trinational Upper Rhine Region3
The Limits of Interest: Moral economy and public engagement in the regulation of derivatives in the United States3
Integrating ecosocial policies through polycentric governance: A study of the green transformation of Danish vocational education and training3
Traceability and foreign corporate accountability in mineral supply chains3
From Fragmentation to Integration: A Systematic Review of Interest Group Involvement in Policy‐ and Rulemaking3
“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories3
The Governor's Dilemma and Regime Complexity: Diversification and Differentiation3
Decarbonization Politics for All: Means‐Tested Social Assistance, Eco‐Social Values, and Public Support for Increased Fossil Fuel Taxes in Europe3
Coaxing Compliance: Ethiopian Lawyers, Chinese Companies, and the Cultivation of Respect3
Foreign corporate accountability: The contested institutionalization of mandatory due diligence in France and Germany3
The difficult road to a better competition policy: How do competition authorities reforms affect antitrust effectiveness?3
Due Diligence Regulation and Sustainability Governance in Value Chains: Lessons From the South African Wine Sector3
Turning Vulnerability Into Strength: How Independent Regulatory Agencies Enhance Accountability and Build Stakeholder Trust3
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From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy3
In the Eye of the Storm? A Quantitative Content Analysis on the Influence of Surrogate Inspectorates on Media Frames2
Unraveling Complex Impacts Pathways of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive in Global Textile Value Chains: A European Perspective2
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Procedural constraints and regulatory ossification in the US states2
Mapping Organized Crime as a Stakeholder: A Risk‐Based and Responsive Governance Perspective2
Chain Reactions: How Businesses Plan to Respond to the EU Deforestation Regulation in Brazil, the Congo Basin, and Europe2
Is Less More? Field Evidence on the Impact of Anti‐Bribery Policies on Employee Knowledge and Corrupt Behavior2
Integrity for English Eyes Only? Evidence of Means‐Ends Decoupling in B razilian Corporate Compliance2
Incorporating equity and justice concerns in regulation2
Using the institutional grammar to understand collective resource management in a heterogenous cooperative facing external shocks2
Performing central bank independence: The Bank of England's communicative financial stability strategy2
Regulatory overlap: A systematic quantitative literature review2
When Regulation Travels: Distrust and Disrespect2
Realizing a blockchain solution without blockchain? Blockchain, solutionism, and trust2
How Public Investments in Childcare Mitigate Childbirth Effects on Employment Transitions by Skill Level in Europe2
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Extracting and classifying exceptional COVID‐19 measures from multilingual legal texts: The merits and limitations of automated approaches2
Democratic Backsliding, Elite Polarization, and Job Seekers' Pursuit of Government Employment2
Steering the Green Transition in the European Union? Analysis of the European Commission's Strategic Communication2
Due Diligence Legislation and the Politics of Implementation: The Case of the German Supply Chain Law2
Trust in Regulation in a Time of Revolution2
Legal Clarity and the Rule of Law: A Global Experimental Study of Consistency in Administrative Decision‐Making2
Motivating Financial Companies Towards Compliance: The Effects of a Cooperative and Deterrent Regulatory Style in a Letter Experiment2
Noncompliance with the law as institutional maintenance at ultra‐religious schools2
Trusting organizational law2
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Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the US Into a Manufacturing Powerhouse. By Colleen A.Dunlavy, Cambridge: Polity, 2024. 240 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN‐13 2
Human Capital for the Knowledge Economy: Upskill Journeys in Advanced Capitalist Democracies. By NiccolòDurazzi, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. 198 pp. ISBN 2
Sharing the Burden: How Corporatism Shapes the Division of Environmental Tax Revenue2
Standards as Authority: Self‐Legitimation in the European Union's Global Forest Governance2
Emotions, crisis, and institutions: Explaining compliance with COVID‐19 regulations2
Responding to Information‐Based Regulation: A Behavioral Analysis of the UK's Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme1
From Multicultural Experiment to Performing “China's Story”: Complying With Shifting Norms at a Chinese–Hungarian Bilingual School1
Self‐Legitimacy and the Moral Authority to Inspect: A Qualitative Study of Probation Inspectors in England and Wales1
Caught Between Privacy and Surveillance: Explaining the Long‐Term Stagnation of Data Protection Regulation in Liberal Democracies1
Proactive State Involvement and Institutional Layering in Social Media Regulation: The Case of South Korea1
Policy Growth and Its Impacts on Policy Implementation: Changes, Challenges and Chances1
Digital sustainability assurance governing global value chains: The case of aquaculture1
Beyond Deterrence: Experimental Study of Factors Influencing Perceived Legitimacy and Compliance With Mandatory Vaccination1
Norms, institutions, and digital veils of uncertainty—Do network protocols need trust anyway?1
High wire: How China regulates Big Tech and governs its economy. By AngelaZhang, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 432. USD 34.95 (hardcover1
The government behind insurance governance: Lessons for ransomware1
A Practical Measure of Red Tape1
The governance of policy integration and policy coordination through joined‐up government: How subnational levels counteract siloism and fragmentation within Swedish migration policy1
Problems and Solutions in the Knowledge Economy: Ideational Power in Slow‐Burning Crises1
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
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Unofficial intermediation in the regulatory governance of hazardous chemicals1
More Than One Agent? Authority Expansion and Delegation Dynamics in the EU1
State Intervention in Vocational Education: Training for the Digital and Green Transitions1
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Responding to Regulatory Feedback: Financial Capacity, Revenue Expectations, and Firms' Responses to the Authority's Recommendations1
Slowing Down or Adapting to Technological Progress? Robot Replacement Risks and Policy Preferences1
Regulating Uncertainty: The Importance of Trust and Affect in the Regulation of AI in The Netherlands1
Climate Politics in Latin America: The Cases of Chile and Mexico1
Balancing Between Extremes: Goal Ambiguity‐Based Strategies to Contain Goal Displacement in Regulatory Enforcement Agencies1
The revolving door in UK government departments: A configurational analysis1
Legal Brokers of Chinese Investment in Cambodia: Compliance Between Contract and Culture1
Concepts and measures of bureaucratic constraints in European Union laws from hand‐coding to machine‐learning1
Formal Institutions and Corporate Tax Disclosures: A Cross‐Country Analysis1
Regulating Care: How Transparency, Ownership, Control, and Sanctions Shape Trust and Preferences1
Navigating the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: How Multinational Enterprises Approach Regulatory Familiarization in the Chocolate Sector1
From agents of the people to agents of authority? How illiberal populism impacts interactions between regulatory agencies and external stakeholders1
Trust, Crisis, and Delegation: A Comparative Analysis of Public Health Authorities During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic1
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Problem exposure and problem solving: The impact of regulatory regimes on citizens' trust in regulated sectors1
Transparent Mediator Discretion as Fairness by Design: A Rationale and Consent Loop for Community Mediation1
A Complexity‐Based Approach to Migration Policy Change: The Case of the German Residence Act1
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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
An Eco‐Social Policy Mix for 1.5°C Lifestyles: A Multi‐Country Policy Delphi Analysis1
Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf: Authority foundations, policy instruments, and the making of security1
The Impact of Emergencies on Corruption Risks: Italian Natural Disasters and Public Procurement1
Reputation management as an interplay of structure and agency: A strategic‐relational approach1
Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union1
Regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems: Searching for African Solutions to Regional and Global Problems1
China's corporate credit reporting system: A comparison with the United States and Germany1
Regulating via Conditionality: The Instruments of the New Industrial Policy1
Explaining variations in enforcement strategy: A comparison of the Swedish health care, eldercare, and compulsory school sector1
Come together: Does network management make a difference for collaborative implementation performance in the context of sudden policy growth?1
Power and Participation: Assessing Collaborative Governance of Organic Standards in Canada1
Taking Eco‐Social Risks Seriously: Explaining the Introduction of Compulsory Insurance for Natural Hazards1
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Skill‐Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden and Britain1
The stealth legitimization of a controversial policy tool: Statistical profiling in French Public Employment Service1
Picking Losers: Climate Change and Managed Decline in the European Union1
Financialization and an emerging “green investor state”: Examining China's use of state‐backed funds for green transition1
Which and Whose Rules Rule? Chinese Agribusinesses and the Challenge of Compliance in Rural Tajikistan1
The logic of regulatory impact assessment: From evidence to evidential reasoning1
Are We Machine or Are We Author? Rethinking Authorship and Its Ties to Copyright Amid Artificial Intelligence Creativity1
Managing Complaint Mechanisms for Regulatory Enforcement: Evidence From Human Rights Institutions During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic1
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