Centros at 20: Regulatory Arbitrage and Beyond

L’altra faccia degli executive orders di Trump: la “guerra ai dati” e i rischi per le future emergenze

L’articolo prende spunto dai recenti executive orders firmati all’inaugurazione della seconda presidenza di Donald Trump e pone l’attenzione sull’attacco ai dati governativi e alla ricerca scientifica che ne è derivato. Dopo aver ricostruito la natura giuridica degli executive orders nel sistema costituzionale statunitense, lo scritto analizza le varie declinazioni assunte dalla “guerra ai dati” e le successive evoluzioni giudiziarie che hanno in parte neutralizzato le decisioni dell’amminist...

Patterns of bureaucracy: conceptualizing administrative traditions

Administrative traditions (AT) are a prominent approach to classify and compare administrative systems across countries, yet there is a lack of agreement on the definition and conceptual dimensions of AT. This article addresses this gap by synthesizing existing knowledge on AT and refining its conceptualization in three steps. First, a systematic review of 505 publications since 1998 elucidates the diverse understandings of AT and the study contexts in which the concept is used. Secondly, ten...

Greenwashing, greenhushing, and the path to green banking

This study investigates how governance characteristics, specifically gender diversity, and bank business models influence the transition from greenwashing and greenhushing to becoming green banks. A balanced panel of 150 listed banks worldwide from 2015 to 2021 is used. Latent Markov models are applied as a methodology capable of explaining the evolution of a group of banks and the characteristics that may affect their transition over time. Key findings reveal a positive correlation between h...