The increasing number of certification schemes diminishes the utility of certifications as private regulation and creates several policy challenges. The undergoing efforts to help consumers verify the accuracy of information created by private regulation mechanisms such as certification are...

This article reports on data architecture that reduces information asymmetries to support public-private collaboration to govern product certification and inspection for promoting transparent markets and building consumer trust. The data architecture is a proof-of-concept set of data standards...

We find four key lessons that health policymakers and practitioners should be aware of: the potential of services liberalization to incur high transition and transaction costs; the difficulty of reconciling economic and social policy goals and the subsequent high likelihood of backlash; the...

The European Union’s new architecture of fiscal and economic governance can be difficult to understand. How do two legislative packages, a treaty, a strategy and a “European Semester” interact to shape member state policies? This paper argues, on the basis of a review and presentation of...

The Doha Development Agenda was sold to the world in 2001 as the solution to an ailing trade round. This paper uses automated text analysis to explore the different approaches of the EU and US, two of the world's largest markets, to the round between 2001 and 2007. It assess the extent to which...

In the past decade, the EU has experimented with various types of consultation mechanism intended to address perceived deficits in policy knowledge and decisionmaking legitimacy within the European system. This paper examines attempts by the European Commission to build up its legitimacy and...

Since devolution, the United Kingdom has evolved not only in terms of political representation but also in terms of the relationships between civil servants in each of its regions. In this paper, we present an analysis of the distinct professional and educational backgrounds of elite civil...