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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice: Underlying Mechanisms Explained279
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets93
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand53
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Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.50
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Defensive Compliance in Corporate Criminal Justice: Effects of Compliance Programs on Organizational Prosecution and Punishment43
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation42
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union39
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust38
Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II33
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries32
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement30
Hybridity of Accountability Logics in Voluntary Sustainability Governance: The Case of Commitment 205029
The Diffusion of International Environmental Agreements: The Role of Learning, Competition and Emulation29
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking28
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States28
Police Cloud : Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure26
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi21
Why data about people are so hard to govern20
Testing the Assumptions of History‐Dependent Approaches to Regulation: Comparing Compliant Companies With Those That Transgress19
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment19
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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 Zealand18
How Well Do Governments Assess the Distributional Impacts of Policy?17
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?17
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market17
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations17
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies17
Why Do Eastern African Countries Comply With OECD Tax Norms? How Network Effects Shape Policy Transfer in Anti‐Profit Shifting Governance17
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure16
How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?16
Supervising Your In‐Group? How Social Identification Shapes Financial Sector Regulatory Leniency15
Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market15
“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting14
Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U‐Space”14
Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government13
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The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries13
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards13
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change12
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China12
The Polysemy of Skills: Exploring Country‐Specific Approaches in the Knowledge Economy12
Mining for Norms: International Extractivism, Chinese Business, and the Indeterminacy of Compliance in Kyrgyzstan11
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium11
Lehdonvirta, Vili (2022). Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MA, USA: The MIT Press.11
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America11
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments11
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change11
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
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech11
Effectiveness of Regulatory Sandboxes in Financial Services: A Systematic Review10
Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance10
The Green Economy and the Global South10
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 markets10
The Many Shades of Clouds: How Law Fails (Us) in Seeing Power in the Digital Economy10
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Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice9
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector9
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda9
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward9
Mapping Green Skills in Collective Skill Formation Systems: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Danish Vocational Education and Training9
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero9
Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance8
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.08
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives8
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain8
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures8
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐198
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy8
The Regulation of Third‐Party Verification Entities in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes: Lessons From China8
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations7
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries7
The Formation of Stakeholders' Trust in Regulatory Agencies: The Relationship Between Contact Frequency, Media Coverage, and Stakeholder Trust in Regulatory Agencies7
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Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?7
From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention7
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
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors7
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies7
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Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies6
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking6
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics6
Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes6
Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU : The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans6
Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation6
Skills Development for the Twin Transition: Building Transnational Skills Ecosystems Through Experimentalist Governance6
Does Distributive Conflict Explain Variation in Green Stimulus Spending? Evidence From 40 Major Economies During the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid‐19 Recession6
Beyond Universal Cooperation: Domain‐Specific Mechanisms of Citizen Compliance Across Taxation, Health, and Environmental Regulation6
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Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID‐19 in South Korea6
Compliance in China6
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care6
Taming the real estate boom in the EU: Pathways to macroprudential (in)action5
Corporate Governance in a Crypto‐World5
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Well‐Being Economy in the Visegrad Countries: Lessons for Degrowth‐Oriented Industrial Policy5
Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN5
The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition: Economic Specializations and Skills Regimes in Europe5
The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–19145
Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive5
Brandeis in Brussels? Bureaucratic discretion, social learning, and the development of regulated competition in the European Union5
European administrative networks during times of crisis: Exploring the temporal development of the internal market network SOLVIT4
Participation Disenchants: How Online Political Participation Decreases Online Political Efficacy in China4
Inducing Compliance: Shaping Audiences' Perceptions in China's Cyber Crime Enforcement4
Toward Transparent Global Governance? Human Rights Due Diligence in the European Union4
Transparency or Access? E‐Procurement's Two Paths to Integrity: Evidence From Italy4
Who Supports the Digitalization of Education? New Survey Evidence From Six OECD Countries4
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Preventing construction deaths: The role of public policies4
Dancing With Restorative Justice: Chinese Legal Professionals and Their Motivational Postures4
The Price of Prosperity? A Historical Account of Regulating Industrial Pollution in the Netherlands4
Political studies of automated governing: A bird's eye (re)view4
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
Unraveling how intermediary‐beneficiary interaction shapes policy implementation4
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How to Govern the Confidence Machine?4
Properties of supranational governance structures and policy diffusion: The case of mifepristone approvals4
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
From de jure to de facto transparency: Analyzing the compliance gap in light of freedom of information laws4
An integrated approach to corporate due diligence from a human rights, environmental, and TWAIL perspective4
Framing policies to mobilize citizens' behavior during a crisis: Examining the effects of positive and negative vaccination incentivizing policies4
Greenwashing and Trust via Enhanced Self‐Regulation: The Case of ESG Rating Providers in Sustainable Finance4
More control–less agency slack? Principal control and the risk of agency slack in international organizations4
Mechanisms of regulatory capture: Testing claims of industry influence in the case of Vioxx3
Incorporating equity and justice concerns in regulation3
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
The Governor's Dilemma and Regime Complexity: Diversification and Differentiation3
Is Warmth More Persuasive? The Effects of Street‐Level Bureaucrats' Warmth and Competence on Citizens' Compliance During Pandemic Emergencies3
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
Coaxing Compliance: Ethiopian Lawyers, Chinese Companies, and the Cultivation of Respect3
Due Diligence Regulation and Sustainability Governance in Value Chains: Lessons From the South African Wine Sector3
Decarbonization Politics for All: Means‐Tested Social Assistance, Eco‐Social Values, and Public Support for Increased Fossil Fuel Taxes in Europe3
Turning Vulnerability Into Strength: How Independent Regulatory Agencies Enhance Accountability and Build Stakeholder Trust3
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“Hitting the Target, but Missing the Point” in Regulatory Impact Assessments: Does Bureaucratization Lead to Better RIAs ?3
Strengthening Trust by Design: A QCA Study of Design Choices in Regulatory Regimes3
The difficult road to a better competition policy: How do competition authorities reforms affect antitrust effectiveness?3
The Limits of Interest: Moral economy and public engagement in the regulation of derivatives in the United States3
“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories3
Integrating ecosocial policies through polycentric governance: A study of the green transformation of Danish vocational education and training3
The Need for Improved Public Transparency in the Era of Due Diligence Regulations3
On the Design of a European Health Union: Public Preferences, Trust, and Experience With the Covid‐19 Crisis3
Competing Under Oath: Can Honesty Pledges Reduce Cheating in Competitive Environments?3
Democratic Backsliding, Elite Polarization, and Job Seekers' Pursuit of Government Employment2
Integrity for English Eyes Only? Evidence of Means‐Ends Decoupling in B razilian Corporate Compliance2
How Public Investments in Childcare Mitigate Childbirth Effects on Employment Transitions by Skill Level in Europe2
Is Less More? Field Evidence on the Impact of Anti‐Bribery Policies on Employee Knowledge and Corrupt Behavior2
Realizing a blockchain solution without blockchain? Blockchain, solutionism, and trust2
Procedural constraints and regulatory ossification in the US states2
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Trust in Regulation in a Time of Revolution2
Steering the Green Transition in the European Union? Analysis of the European Commission's Strategic Communication2
Emotions, crisis, and institutions: Explaining compliance with COVID‐19 regulations2
Chain Reactions: How Businesses Plan to Respond to the EU Deforestation Regulation in Brazil, the Congo Basin, and Europe2
Human Capital for the Knowledge Economy: Upskill Journeys in Advanced Capitalist Democracies. By NiccolòDurazzi, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. 198 pp. ISBN 2
Trusting organizational law2
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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
Standards as Authority: Self‐Legitimation in the European Union's Global Forest Governance2
Extracting and classifying exceptional COVID‐19 measures from multilingual legal texts: The merits and limitations of automated approaches2
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
Due Diligence Legislation and the Politics of Implementation: The Case of the German Supply Chain Law2
When Regulation Travels: Distrust and Disrespect2
In the Eye of the Storm? A Quantitative Content Analysis on the Influence of Surrogate Inspectorates on Media Frames2
Using the institutional grammar to understand collective resource management in a heterogenous cooperative facing external shocks2
The logic of regulatory impact assessment: From evidence to evidential reasoning1
Responding to Regulatory Feedback: Financial Capacity, Revenue Expectations, and Firms' Responses to the Authority's Recommendations1
State Intervention in Vocational Education: Training for the Digital and Green Transitions1
Problem exposure and problem solving: The impact of regulatory regimes on citizens' trust in regulated sectors1
More Than One Agent? Authority Expansion and Delegation Dynamics in the EU1
Legal Brokers of Chinese Investment in Cambodia: Compliance Between Contract and Culture1
Regulating via Conditionality: The Instruments of the New Industrial Policy1
A Complexity‐Based Approach to Migration Policy Change: The Case of the German Residence Act1
Performing central bank independence: The Bank of England's communicative financial stability strategy1
Caught in quicksand? Compliance and legitimacy challenges in using regulatory sandboxes to manage emerging technologies1
Digital sustainability assurance governing global value chains: The case of aquaculture1
Balancing Between Extremes: Goal Ambiguity‐Based Strategies to Contain Goal Displacement in Regulatory Enforcement Agencies1
The governance of policy integration and policy coordination through joined‐up government: How subnational levels counteract siloism and fragmentation within Swedish migration policy1
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
China's corporate credit reporting system: A comparison with the United States and Germany1
The stealth legitimization of a controversial policy tool: Statistical profiling in French Public Employment Service1
The government behind insurance governance: Lessons for ransomware1
Self‐Legitimacy and the Moral Authority to Inspect: A Qualitative Study of Probation Inspectors in England and Wales1
Taking Eco‐Social Risks Seriously: Explaining the Introduction of Compulsory Insurance for Natural Hazards1
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Formal Institutions and Corporate Tax Disclosures: A Cross‐Country Analysis1
Mapping bureaucratic overload: Dynamics and drivers in media coverage across three European countries1
Beyond Deterrence: Experimental Study of Factors Influencing Perceived Legitimacy and Compliance With Mandatory Vaccination1
Braithwaite, John (2022). Macrocriminology and freedom. Canberra, Australia: Australia National University Press.1
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
Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union1
Noncompliance with the law as institutional maintenance at ultra‐religious schools1
Regulating the retirement age—Lessons from Nordic pension policy approaches1
Financialization and an emerging “green investor state”: Examining China's use of state‐backed funds for green transition1
Concepts and measures of bureaucratic constraints in European Union laws from hand‐coding to machine‐learning1
Proactive State Involvement and Institutional Layering in Social Media Regulation: The Case of South Korea1
The revolving door in UK government departments: A configurational analysis1
High wire: How China regulates Big Tech and governs its economy. By AngelaZhang, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2024. pp. 432. USD 34.95 (hardcover1
Trust, Crisis, and Delegation: A Comparative Analysis of Public Health Authorities During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic1
Come together: Does network management make a difference for collaborative implementation performance in the context of sudden policy growth?1
Policy Growth and Its Impacts on Policy Implementation: Changes, Challenges and Chances1
Navigating the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: How Multinational Enterprises Approach Regulatory Familiarization in the Chocolate Sector1
Caught Between Privacy and Surveillance: Explaining the Long‐Term Stagnation of Data Protection Regulation in Liberal Democracies1
Responding to Information‐Based Regulation: A Behavioral Analysis of the UK's Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme1
Managing Complaint Mechanisms for Regulatory Enforcement: Evidence From Human Rights Institutions During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic1
Reputation management as an interplay of structure and agency: A strategic‐relational approach1
Climate Politics in Latin America: The Cases of Chile and Mexico1
Regulatory overlap: A systematic quantitative literature review1
Norms, institutions, and digital veils of uncertainty—Do network protocols need trust anyway?1
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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
The voice of implementation: Exploring the link between street‐level integration and sectoral policy outcomes1
Regulating Care: How Transparency, Ownership, Control, and Sanctions Shape Trust and Preferences1
Regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems: Searching for African Solutions to Regional and Global Problems1
Explaining variations in enforcement strategy: A comparison of the Swedish health care, eldercare, and compulsory school sector1
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
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