This paper examines the strategic communication of the European Commission about developing a regulatory approach and financial instruments to foster the greening of the European economy over a period of 14 years (2009–2023). We investigate in-depth the strategic communication of three European Commission Colleges led by Barroso, Juncker, and von der Leyen, respectively. We analyze an original dataset of 57 Commission Communications using qualitative content analysis. The paper demonstrates that, over the past 14 years, the EU's strategic agenda-setting has moved away from a predominantly neoliberal approach of limited state involvement in the economy to one foreseeing more active state intervention, especially in the provision of financial resources and the design of integrated policies to guide the green transition. The findings highlight the crucial role of the Commission in steering the EU's climate action policies, as shown by the adoption of the European Green Deal in 2019.
{"title":"Steering the Green Transition in the European Union? Analysis of the European Commission's Strategic Communication","authors":"Susanne Reither, Elissaveta Radulova, Aneta Spendzharova","doi":"10.1111/rego.70107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70107","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the strategic communication of the European Commission about developing a regulatory approach and financial instruments to foster the greening of the European economy over a period of 14 years (2009–2023). We investigate in-depth the strategic communication of three European Commission Colleges led by Barroso, Juncker, and von der Leyen, respectively. We analyze an original dataset of 57 Commission Communications using qualitative content analysis. The paper demonstrates that, over the past 14 years, the EU's strategic agenda-setting has moved away from a predominantly neoliberal approach of limited state involvement in the economy to one foreseeing more active state intervention, especially in the provision of financial resources and the design of integrated policies to guide the green transition. The findings highlight the crucial role of the Commission in steering the EU's climate action policies, as shown by the adoption of the European Green Deal in 2019.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"198200 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145657302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines how probation inspectors in England and Wales construct their self‐legitimacy; the internal belief in their moral and professional right to inspect. Drawing on qualitative interviews and Bottoms and Tankebe's dialogic model of legitimacy, it shows how inspectors justify their authority through legal mandates, professional expertise, methodological rigor, and a commitment to public service. In the absence of coercive powers, inspectors rely on what this article conceptualizes as regulatory soft power, influence grounded in credibility, fairness, and moral purpose. Inspection emerges as a relational practice, shaped by how inspectors perceive themselves and how they are perceived by others. This study extends the concept of self‐legitimacy from criminology into the regulatory domain, offering new insight into how regulators navigate authority in contexts marked by political sensitivity and limited enforcement tools. It argues that self‐legitimacy is an overlooked dimension of responsive regulation and a key factor in regulatory effectiveness.
{"title":"Self‐Legitimacy and the Moral Authority to Inspect: A Qualitative Study of Probation Inspectors in England and Wales","authors":"Jake Phillips","doi":"10.1111/rego.70109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70109","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how probation inspectors in England and Wales construct their self‐legitimacy; the internal belief in their moral and professional right to inspect. Drawing on qualitative interviews and Bottoms and Tankebe's dialogic model of legitimacy, it shows how inspectors justify their authority through legal mandates, professional expertise, methodological rigor, and a commitment to public service. In the absence of coercive powers, inspectors rely on what this article conceptualizes as regulatory soft power, influence grounded in credibility, fairness, and moral purpose. Inspection emerges as a relational practice, shaped by how inspectors perceive themselves and how they are perceived by others. This study extends the concept of self‐legitimacy from criminology into the regulatory domain, offering new insight into how regulators navigate authority in contexts marked by political sensitivity and limited enforcement tools. It argues that self‐legitimacy is an overlooked dimension of responsive regulation and a key factor in regulatory effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145619424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The literature on lobbying coalitions has explored the choice of interest organizations to cooperate with others in a series of correlational studies. Yet, considerable diversity in cooperation activities, as well as path dependencies between organizations complicate these analyses. For this reason, we still have limited knowledge about different types of asymmetries between coalition partners that inform organizational cooperation. Experimental studies can add to these findings by assessing differences between the strategic choices made by organizations in more controlled, though hypothetical, settings. In this article, we present the results of a preregistered survey experiment, conducted in eight European polities (Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Ireland, The Netherlands, Italy, and the European Union) to understand the willingness of organizations to cooperate with “strangers,” as well as members of their network in the agenda‐setting phase of policymaking. We also test the willingness to cooperate with different types of groups (NGOs and business organizations), and gauge how treatment effects vary for different types of respondents. Our results help understand the importance of previous connections, homophily and reputational considerations in coalition formation in the policy process. Moreover, our study uncovers differences in the willingness to engage in different types of cooperation and indicates that inequalities exist between interest organizations when it comes to partner choice that we so far know little about.
{"title":"Strange Bedfellows, No Thanks! A Survey Experiment on the Choice of Lobbying Coalition Partners in Policy Agenda Setting","authors":"Wiebke Marie Junk, Ellis Aizenberg","doi":"10.1111/rego.70108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70108","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on lobbying coalitions has explored the choice of interest organizations to cooperate with others in a series of correlational studies. Yet, considerable diversity in cooperation activities, as well as path dependencies between organizations complicate these analyses. For this reason, we still have limited knowledge about different types of asymmetries between coalition partners that inform organizational cooperation. Experimental studies can add to these findings by assessing differences between the strategic choices made by organizations in more controlled, though hypothetical, settings. In this article, we present the results of a preregistered survey experiment, conducted in eight European polities (Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Ireland, The Netherlands, Italy, and the European Union) to understand the willingness of organizations to cooperate with “strangers,” as well as members of their network in the agenda‐setting phase of policymaking. We also test the willingness to cooperate with different types of groups (NGOs and business organizations), and gauge how treatment effects vary for different types of respondents. Our results help understand the importance of previous connections, homophily and reputational considerations in coalition formation in the policy process. Moreover, our study uncovers differences in the willingness to engage in different types of cooperation and indicates that inequalities exist between interest organizations when it comes to partner choice that we so far know little about.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"199 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145609087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The European Union's Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) obliges the importers and users of seven agricultural commodities to achieve supply chain traceability and prevent deforestation‐linked products from entering the EU market. This paper investigates how companies and producing countries in the coffee sector prepared for EUDR compliance by analyzing 61 semi‐structured expert interviews and 25 sectoral meetings. It draws on socio‐legal theorization on compliance construction and Global Value Chain scholarship to show that under regulatory uncertainty, compliance preparations are shaped significantly by pre‐existing value chain characteristics and power relations. Upstream, midstream, and downstream actors pursued different compliance approaches to reduce costs and improve their competitive position. While producing countries aimed to establish country‐level producer databases for EUDR compliance, trading companies drew on existing capacities to build out their traceable, sustainable coffee offers. Downstream coffee sector actors, in turn, constructed a “territorial” approach to EUDR compliance that eschewed strict traceability, but were ultimately unsuccessful in lobbying for its acceptance by EU authorities. The results highlight the importance of considering value chain dynamics when designing and implementing public policy, and paying greater analytical attention to the phase of compliance preparation within the policy cycle.
{"title":"The Construction of Compliance with the European Union Deforestation Regulation in Global Coffee Value Chains","authors":"Janina Grabs","doi":"10.1111/rego.70103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70103","url":null,"abstract":"The European Union's Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) obliges the importers and users of seven agricultural commodities to achieve supply chain traceability and prevent deforestation‐linked products from entering the EU market. This paper investigates how companies and producing countries in the coffee sector prepared for EUDR compliance by analyzing 61 semi‐structured expert interviews and 25 sectoral meetings. It draws on socio‐legal theorization on compliance construction and Global Value Chain scholarship to show that under regulatory uncertainty, compliance preparations are shaped significantly by pre‐existing value chain characteristics and power relations. Upstream, midstream, and downstream actors pursued different compliance approaches to reduce costs and improve their competitive position. While producing countries aimed to establish country‐level producer databases for EUDR compliance, trading companies drew on existing capacities to build out their traceable, sustainable coffee offers. Downstream coffee sector actors, in turn, constructed a “territorial” approach to EUDR compliance that eschewed strict traceability, but were ultimately unsuccessful in lobbying for its acceptance by EU authorities. The results highlight the importance of considering value chain dynamics when designing and implementing public policy, and paying greater analytical attention to the phase of compliance preparation within the policy cycle.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"187 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145575733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jana Gómez Díaz, Anna Pikos, Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen, Edoardo Guaschino
This article investigates the formation of stakeholders' trust in regulatory agencies, as the extent to which contact frequency and sentiment of media coverage are related to different types of stakeholders' trust. Based upon original survey data from diverse stakeholders, and media coverage from 2015 to 2020 of agencies in the food safety, financial regulation, and data protection sectors across seven countries, the analysis suggests that media coverage rather than contact frequency is important for stakeholders' formation of trust. Negative media coverage is detrimental to stakeholders' trust; positive or neutral coverage is conducive to stakeholders' trust. Finally, the results indicate that contact frequency does not seem to strengthen or weaken the importance of media coverage for stakeholders' trust in regulatory agencies significantly. This suggests the relative importance of media coverage compared to direct contact and experience with regulatory agencies when understanding determinants of stakeholders' trust formation. Beyond contributing to the research on regulatory governance, this study offers valuable insights for regulatory agencies in terms of navigating and leveraging the media.
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Martin B. Carstensen, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Ida Marie Nyland Jensen, Bjarke Lund‐Sørensen
Vocational education plays a vital role in fostering green skills that are central for achieving climate goals, sustaining economic competitiveness, and promoting social inclusion. Expectations are especially high for collective vocational education systems, in which both employers and the state are deeply involved in governance and funding. However, little is known about the extent to which collective systems have adapted to the skill demands of a green economy. Using Denmark as a case, this paper examines how collective vocational systems adjust skill content to support a net‐zero carbon economy. Using natural language processing, we analyze the integration of green skills in the training ordinances of 101 Danish vocational programs from 2015 to 2024. Rather than a uniform transition, this explorative study identifies diverse trajectories of skill adaptation. Based on the analysis, four reform trajectories are inductively identified: trailblazers , that rapidly integrate green skills; adaptors , that make substantial but incremental changes; laggards , that make limited updates; and late bloomers , that initially delay reforms but later accelerate green skill integration.
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Despite a growing awareness of the interrelation of environmental and social sustainability issues and the need to tackle them in integrated ways, few efforts have been made to develop an analytical framework of eco‐social policy integration. In particular, a theoretical link to the broader social science debate on policy integration is missing. This paper aims to contribute to closing this gap by suggesting an analytical framework for a processual understanding of eco‐social policy integration through critical engagement with the literature on policy integration from an eco‐social perspective. In particular, it takes Candel and Biesbroek's four dimensions of policy integration as a point of departure, proposing to move beyond it in at least three ways: taking the integration of the social and the environmental sectors rather than a cross‐cutting policy problem as the analytical entry point, disentangling the who and what in processes of policy integration and analytically differentiating between a material and a symbolic dimension inherent to all actors and institutional elements involved in processes of policy integration as well as to the policy elements that are being integrated. Additionally, the paper highlights the importance of analyzing processes of policy integration in light of the different stages of the policy process, as well as the multiple governance levels on which such processes play out. The paper thus contributes to analytically strengthening the concept of eco‐social policy integration and disentangling its various dimensions, while exploring the role different elements of the policy integration process play in shaping its form and strength.
{"title":"Eco‐Social Policy Integration as a Process: Towards a Processual Understanding of an Ascending Concept","authors":"Jana Brandl","doi":"10.1111/rego.70101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70101","url":null,"abstract":"Despite a growing awareness of the interrelation of environmental and social sustainability issues and the need to tackle them in integrated ways, few efforts have been made to develop an analytical framework of eco‐social policy integration. In particular, a theoretical link to the broader social science debate on policy integration is missing. This paper aims to contribute to closing this gap by suggesting an analytical framework for a processual understanding of eco‐social policy integration through critical engagement with the literature on policy integration from an eco‐social perspective. In particular, it takes Candel and Biesbroek's four dimensions of policy integration as a point of departure, proposing to move beyond it in at least three ways: taking the integration of the social and the environmental sectors rather than a cross‐cutting policy problem as the analytical entry point, disentangling the <jats:italic>who</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>what</jats:italic> in processes of policy integration and analytically differentiating between a <jats:italic>material</jats:italic> and a <jats:italic>symbolic dimension</jats:italic> inherent to all actors and institutional elements involved in processes of policy integration as well as to the policy elements that are being integrated. Additionally, the paper highlights the importance of analyzing processes of policy integration in light of the different stages of the policy process, as well as the multiple governance levels on which such processes play out. The paper thus contributes to analytically strengthening the concept of eco‐social policy integration and disentangling its various dimensions, while exploring the role different elements of the policy integration process play in shaping its form and strength.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145473050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Taking its cue from the growing frequency of disruptive crises, new research argues that crisis‐induced turbulence calls for robust governance based on adaptation and innovation. While law plays a key role in the effort of governments to govern robustly, the robustness of law has received scant regard. To compensate for this gap, this article defines robust legality, analyzes its conditions of emergence, reflects on the different forms it might take, and considers the prospects for advancing robust legal regulation. Studying legal robustness enables public management researchers and practitioners to better understand the role of law in times of heightened societal turbulence.
{"title":"How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?","authors":"Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing, Peter Triantafillou","doi":"10.1111/rego.70100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70100","url":null,"abstract":"Taking its cue from the growing frequency of disruptive crises, new research argues that crisis‐induced turbulence calls for robust governance based on adaptation and innovation. While law plays a key role in the effort of governments to govern robustly, the robustness of law has received scant regard. To compensate for this gap, this article defines robust legality, analyzes its conditions of emergence, reflects on the different forms it might take, and considers the prospects for advancing robust legal regulation. Studying legal robustness enables public management researchers and practitioners to better understand the role of law in times of heightened societal turbulence.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"127 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145427408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marina Cino Pagliarello, Milan Thies, Tamara Tubakovic, Douglas Nunes
This paper investigates how the concept of “skills” operates as a malleable governance instrument in EU policy, allowing for coordination despite diverse national priorities. Analyzing National Implementation Plans (NIPs) of the Osnabrück Declaration, we examine how Germany, France, Sweden, and Spain interpret and operationalize skill formation through nationally specific lenses. Despite being a least‐likely case for ambiguity, the NIPs reveal strategic variation: Germany links skills to structural transformation, France to capacitation for growth, Sweden to the integration of disadvantaged groups, and Spain to tackling youth unemployment. These findings show how the EU's use of conceptually ambiguous frameworks enables soft policy coordination without requiring uniform implementation. Polysemy thus emerges not as a weakness but as a functional mechanism that allows Member States to align with EU priorities while preserving domestic institutional logics. The paper contributes to scholarship on EU governance, policy discourse, and the political economy of skills.
{"title":"The Polysemy of Skills: Exploring Country‐Specific Approaches in the Knowledge Economy","authors":"Marina Cino Pagliarello, Milan Thies, Tamara Tubakovic, Douglas Nunes","doi":"10.1111/rego.70102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70102","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates how the concept of “skills” operates as a malleable governance instrument in EU policy, allowing for coordination despite diverse national priorities. Analyzing National Implementation Plans (NIPs) of the Osnabrück Declaration, we examine how Germany, France, Sweden, and Spain interpret and operationalize skill formation through nationally specific lenses. Despite being a least‐likely case for ambiguity, the NIPs reveal strategic variation: Germany links skills to structural transformation, France to capacitation for growth, Sweden to the integration of disadvantaged groups, and Spain to tackling youth unemployment. These findings show how the EU's use of conceptually ambiguous frameworks enables soft policy coordination without requiring uniform implementation. Polysemy thus emerges not as a weakness but as a functional mechanism that allows Member States to align with EU priorities while preserving domestic institutional logics. The paper contributes to scholarship on EU governance, policy discourse, and the political economy of skills.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145427407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin B. Carstensen, Niccolo Durazzi, Patrick Emmenegger, Jane Gingrich
The twin transition to a digital and green economy has placed skill formation at the center of efforts to sustain competitiveness. Reforming skill formation systems poses enduring dilemmas on how to balance concerns about economic efficiency with social inclusion while securing employer commitment. The context of significant uncertainty brought on by the twin transition—placed at all levels, from individuals to firms to the state—amplifies the challenge of building effective skills ecosystems. We argue that the central question is no longer about whether governments should intervene but instead about how to govern skill formation under profound uncertainty. The task is to design institutions that are flexible enough to adapt to shifting technological and ecological demands while stable enough to sustain political coalitions and social inclusion. We argue that effective skills ecosystems for the twin transition must combine political stability with the capacity to embrace—rather than reduce—economic uncertainty.
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