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View article: The performance of accountability and the treatment of experts by politicians: UK parliamentary select committees during the COVID-19 pandemic
The performance of accountability and the treatment of experts by politicians: UK parliamentary select committees during the COVID-19 pandemic Open
While recent research on policy making and implementation has shifted analytical attention from formal to informal or voluntary accountability processes, there remains a lack of systematic attention to the individual-level dynamics of acco…
View article: EFMD's View of Critical Issues of Gender Equality and Diversity in Business Schools
EFMD's View of Critical Issues of Gender Equality and Diversity in Business Schools Open
View article: Reconceiving Domestic Burning Controls: Air Quality Alerts, Behavioural Responsive Regulation, and Designing for Compliance
Reconceiving Domestic Burning Controls: Air Quality Alerts, Behavioural Responsive Regulation, and Designing for Compliance Open
View article: Perceptions of accountability and trust in the regulatory governance of wood burning stove sustainability: Survey evidence from the post-Brexit UK
Perceptions of accountability and trust in the regulatory governance of wood burning stove sustainability: Survey evidence from the post-Brexit UK Open
• New survey data on trustworthiness and accountability in wood burner regulation. • Results suggest strengthening regulatory pressures on consumer compliance. • Results support enhancing collaboration across health/environment public agen…
View article: Enhancing Vulnerable Groups’ Participation in Medicines Risk Regulation: The Case of the European Medicines Agency’s Public Hearing on Quinolone Antibiotics
Enhancing Vulnerable Groups’ Participation in Medicines Risk Regulation: The Case of the European Medicines Agency’s Public Hearing on Quinolone Antibiotics Open
What is the value of including vulnerable people in risk regulation decision-making in the European Union (EU)? This article examines a distinctive approach employed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA): public hearings integrated within…
View article: What Do “Left Behind Communities” Want? A Qualitative Study in the United Kingdom using Photo Elicitation
What Do “Left Behind Communities” Want? A Qualitative Study in the United Kingdom using Photo Elicitation Open
Recent shifts in political support to populist parties worldwide have been linked to the changing preferences of “left behind communities.” Based on apparently growing “left behind” support for populists, some commentators have argued for …
View article: Appendix for What do ‘Left Behind Communities’ Want? A Qualitative Study in the United Kingdom using Photo Elicitation
Appendix for What do ‘Left Behind Communities’ Want? A Qualitative Study in the United Kingdom using Photo Elicitation Open
Appendix for "What do ‘Left Behind Communities’ Want? A Qualitative Study in the United Kingdom using Photo Elicitation". The Appendix contains: · ethics certificates or similar approvals; · any interview guides or related protocols used d…
View article: Impact on the NHS and health of the UK's trade and cooperation relationship with the EU, and beyond
Impact on the NHS and health of the UK's trade and cooperation relationship with the EU, and beyond Open
The UK's relationship with the European Union (EU) is now embodied in two principal legal instruments: the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which formally entered into force on 1 May 2021; and the Withdrawal Agreement, with its Proto…
View article: Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK
Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK Open
This paper develops and applies the concept of accountability styles for analyzing and comparing accountability practices in different countries. This is relevant as there is considerable scholarship on public sector accountability but onl…
View article: Global Focus Magazine across the years
Global Focus Magazine across the years Open
View article: Understanding Democratic Stress
Understanding Democratic Stress Open
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View article: Can independent regulatory agencies mend Europe’s democracy? The case of the European Medicines Agency’s public hearing on Valproate
Can independent regulatory agencies mend Europe’s democracy? The case of the European Medicines Agency’s public hearing on Valproate Open
In 2017, the European Medicines Agency staged the first effort at democratic innovation within transnational European Union institutions directly influencing the transnational regulation of medicines. Alongside its public consultation on e…
View article: The Political Ideas Underpinning Political Distrust: Analysing Four Types of Anti-politics
The Political Ideas Underpinning Political Distrust: Analysing Four Types of Anti-politics Open
Anti-politics has emerged as an important concept for analysing the effects of distrust on liberal democratic politics. However, it is unclear why democrats should trust individuals who distrust politics to help them in renewing democracy.…
View article: Enacting Accountability Under Populist Pressures: Theorizing the Relationship Between Anti-Elite Rhetoric and Public Accountability
Enacting Accountability Under Populist Pressures: Theorizing the Relationship Between Anti-Elite Rhetoric and Public Accountability Open
While populism challenges the pluralism and technocratic expertise on which public bureaucracies are based, extant scholarship has overlooked its effects on accountability processes. In particular, it neglects the impact of anti-elite rhet…
View article: Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies
Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies Open
In contemporary public governance, leaders of public organizations are faced with multiple, and oftentimes conflictual, accountability claims. Drawing upon a survey of CEO’s of agencies in seven countries, we explore whether and how confli…
View article: Europe's New Technocracy: Boundaries of Public Participation in EU Institutions
Europe's New Technocracy: Boundaries of Public Participation in EU Institutions Open
Regional organizations in the Global North have sought to create avenues for legitimating integrationist activities. Participatory initiatives are one such route. Referring to mechanisms whereby 'independently created forms of collective a…
View article: Algorithmic governance: A modes of governance approach
Algorithmic governance: A modes of governance approach Open
This article examines how modes of governance are reconfigured as a result of using algorithms in the governance process. We argue that deploying algorithmic systems creates a shift toward a special form of design‐based governance, with po…
View article: Health “Brexternalities”: The Brexit Effect on Health and Health Care outside the United Kingdom
Health “Brexternalities”: The Brexit Effect on Health and Health Care outside the United Kingdom Open
The principal effects of Brexit on health and health care will fall within the United Kingdom, and all forms of Brexit have overwhelmingly negative implications for health care and health within the UK. This article focuses on the external…
View article: How the UK’s trade deals will impact healthcare access across Europe
How the UK’s trade deals will impact healthcare access across Europe Open
How might the negotiations over the future UK-EU relationship affect healthcare access? Drawing on a new research briefing, Matt Wood provides a detailed assessment of the impact UK-EU and UK-US trade agreements may have on healthcare acro…
View article: A Multidimensional Reputation Barometer for Public Agencies: A Validated Instrument
A Multidimensional Reputation Barometer for Public Agencies: A Validated Instrument Open
Reputation is of growing interest for the study of public bureaucracies , but a measurement that can discern between the subdimensions of reputation and is validated on real‐life audiences has remained elusive . The authors deductively bui…
View article: Anti-politics and democratic innovation
Anti-politics and democratic innovation Open
This chapter offers a critical analysis of current research on anti-politics and links to forms of democratic innovation. We find that ‘anti-politics’ remains a ‘contested’ concept, which to some extent reflects a lack of analytical depth …
View article: Conceptualizing throughput legitimacy: Procedural mechanisms of accountability, transparency, inclusiveness and openness in EU governance
Conceptualizing throughput legitimacy: Procedural mechanisms of accountability, transparency, inclusiveness and openness in EU governance Open
This symposium demonstrates the potential for throughput legitimacy as a concept for shedding empirical light on the strengths and weaknesses of multi‐level governance, as well as challenging the concept theoretically. This article introdu…
View article: Latin America's 19th Century (Mostly Mexico): Formation of State, Subject and Self
Latin America's 19th Century (Mostly Mexico): Formation of State, Subject and Self Open
This exhibit is a culmination of UT students’ collaborative effort to select, curate, and digitize original documents held in the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection that reveal the region’s tumultuous and transformative 19th-centu…
View article: The Precarious Politics of Public Innovation
The Precarious Politics of Public Innovation Open
This article argues that debates about public innovation among governance scholars risk essentialising the concept. Rather than recognise the inherently normative content of public innovation, some scholars have created taxonomies that con…
View article: Comparing governance, agencies and accountability in seven countries: CPA Survey Report
Comparing governance, agencies and accountability in seven countries: CPA Survey Report Open
View article: The metagovernance of English devolution
The metagovernance of English devolution Open
Metagovernance refers to a theory of how governments steer decentralised networks by indirectly shaping the rules and norms of those networks. This article develops metagovernance conceptually and empirically by looking at the use of ‘hand…
View article: Mapping EU agencies as political entrepreneurs
Mapping EU agencies as political entrepreneurs Open
The European Union relies on decentralised agencies to implement important transnational regulations, such as certifying the safety of medicines. However, the authority of these agencies does not have ‘hard’ legal status and crucially depe…
View article: Just like us: Everyday celebrity politicians and the pursuit of popularity in an age of anti-politics
Just like us: Everyday celebrity politicians and the pursuit of popularity in an age of anti-politics Open
In a supposedly ‘anti-political’ age, the scholarly literature on celebrity politicians argues that politicians gain popularity by adopting strategies from within the world of entertainment. This article offers the findings of a research p…
View article: By focusing on voter turnout, the government fails to understand the democratic process
By focusing on voter turnout, the government fails to understand the democratic process Open
Trade union strikes can legally go ahead if more than half the votes are in favour of action, regardless of how many members vote. The Trade Union Bill seeks to change this process by requiring that at least 50 per cent of all eligible mem…
View article: Tips for Junior Doctors and Medical Students: Writing and Publishing Undergraduate Textbooks
Tips for Junior Doctors and Medical Students: Writing and Publishing Undergraduate Textbooks Open
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