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Assurance Actors as Intermediaries in AI Risk Governance Emerging technologies present risks that can spur demand for assurances about the assessment and management of these risks. These ex ante or ex post assurances can be tightly scoped risk audits or ...

Happy to share a new article with Benjamin Faveri that looks at the emerging field of AI assurance actors and their activities and preferences in relations to AI risk governance. See details at linked article.

#intermediaries #AIregulations #assuranceactors

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo
#Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths
@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

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🛎️ Early view

How do #Accountability relations between #Intermediaries #Regulators & #RegulatoryTargets shape intermediaries’ decision to report targets to regulators❓

@evathomann.bsky.social points to intermediaries’ (non-)compliance as a problem of accountability 👇

doi.org/10.1093/pols...

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Brokering Localization: Country‐Based Pooled Funds in Humanitarian Assistance This article analyzes Country-Based Pooled Funds (CBPFs) to identify types of brokerage models and their effects on localization. CBPFs are intermediaries in the aid chain connecting donors to implem...

Happy to share my new article, "Brokering #Localization: Country-based Pooled Funds in Humanitarian Assistance," out in @journalpad.bsky.social. If you're interested in #intermediaries, #PooledFunds, #localization or #brokerage read it open access here! doi.org/10.1002/pad....
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What a treat it was to discuss all things #evidence and #intermediaries with these two wonderful ladies. Sign up for #EIS2025 to hear more conversations like this.

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Audrey's presentation will explore key principles arising out of case law concerning the need for #intermediaries in #criminaltrials, and hurdles to applications.

🤝 The #conference will host several other presentations conducted by legal experts, practitioners and intermediaries.

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(narrative) stories-and-data | CIE

Equity starts with who gets seen—and who gets counted.

This narrative section looks at how racism shapes both our stories and our data, and what it takes to change that.

Explore the full section: www.leadingwithlearning.org/stories-and-data

#NarrativeChange #Pathways #Intermediaries

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Know Your BDM: Jo Brandwood, Bank of Ireland UK This week, Mortgage Solutions catches up with Jo Brandwood, business development manager (BDM) at Bank of Ireland UK.

Know Your BDM: Jo Brandwood, Bank of Ireland UK @bankofireland.bsky.social @square1media.bsky.social #BankofIrelandforIntermediaries #KnowYourBDM #intermediaries #broker #mortgagebroker

www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/better-busin...

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Rethinking capacities of regulatory market-assurance intermediaries: the case of seafood sustainability audits Credible assurances about the invisible qualities of goods and services – such as sustainability features – are key to market governance. The theory of regulatory intermediaries offers a lens for a...

Now out in the latest issue of New Political Economy. #RegGov #fisheries #audits #intermediaries

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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respecting the expertise of professionals, and allowing them the time to explain their recommendations—rather than dismissing, patronising, or shutting down essential discussions.

#intermediaries #fairaccesstojustice

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We Shouldn’t Have To Explain To The FTC Why Content Moderation Is So Crucial To Free Speech, But We Did FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson begged Donald Trump for his job by promising he would “end Lina Khan’s politically motivated investigations.” And, yet, one of his first orders of business upon getting the job was to… kick off a politically motivated investigation regarding “big tech censorship,” which he (falsely) claimed was potentially illegally targeting conservative speech […]
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My mission this week: Read @bschillace.brandyschillace.com's THE INTERMEDIARIES, write about Europeans who launched the scientific study of sex and the queer civil rights movement, and document Katharine Bement Davis’s role in it all! #sexmatters #intermediaries

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Your #foundation or #family wants to start or expand #impactinvesting. But you don't have the staff to manage the work. #Intermediaries can offer trusted guidance, tailored support, and specific products to help you accelerate your success.

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Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change
Basak Kus,  Gregory Jackson
Pages: 287-302 First Published: 07 April 2025

From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy
Hanna Schwander,  Jonas Fischer
Pages: 303-328 First Published: 20 August 2024

Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy
Tim Bartley,  Malcolm Fairbrother
Pages: 329-348 First Published: 10 September 2024

Financialization and an emerging “green investor state”: Examining China's use of state-backed funds for green transition
Kasper Ingeman Beck,  Mathias Larsen
Pages: 349-369 First Published: 21 August 2024

Historical Foundations of Green Developmental Policies: Divergent Trajectories in United States and France
Ritwick Ghosh,  Stephanie Barral,  Fanny Guillet
Pages: 370-382 First Published: 08 October 2024

Picking Losers: Climate Change and Managed Decline in the European Union
Timur Ergen,  Luuk Schmitz
Pages: 383-398 First Published: 06 March 2025

Climate Politics in Latin America: The Cases of Chile and Mexico
Isik D. Özel
Pages: 399-421 First Published: 05 March 2025

Digitalization and the green transition: Different challenges, same policy responses?
Marius R. Busemeyer,  Sophia Stutzmann,  Tobias Tober
Pages: 422-447 First Published: 03 September 2024

Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock-ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero
Milan Babić,  Daniel Mertens
Pages: 448-468 First Published: 19 September 2024

Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change
Jose Atiles,  David Whyte
Pages: 469-481 First Published: 12 February 2025

The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper-Middle-Income Countries
Pieter E. Stek,  Renato Lima-de-Oliveira,  Thessa Vasudhevan
Pages: 482-495 First Published: 05 March 2025

The Rise of Investor-Driven Climate Governance: From Myth to Insti…

Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change Basak Kus, Gregory Jackson Pages: 287-302 First Published: 07 April 2025 From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy Hanna Schwander, Jonas Fischer Pages: 303-328 First Published: 20 August 2024 Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy Tim Bartley, Malcolm Fairbrother Pages: 329-348 First Published: 10 September 2024 Financialization and an emerging “green investor state”: Examining China's use of state-backed funds for green transition Kasper Ingeman Beck, Mathias Larsen Pages: 349-369 First Published: 21 August 2024 Historical Foundations of Green Developmental Policies: Divergent Trajectories in United States and France Ritwick Ghosh, Stephanie Barral, Fanny Guillet Pages: 370-382 First Published: 08 October 2024 Picking Losers: Climate Change and Managed Decline in the European Union Timur Ergen, Luuk Schmitz Pages: 383-398 First Published: 06 March 2025 Climate Politics in Latin America: The Cases of Chile and Mexico Isik D. Özel Pages: 399-421 First Published: 05 March 2025 Digitalization and the green transition: Different challenges, same policy responses? Marius R. Busemeyer, Sophia Stutzmann, Tobias Tober Pages: 422-447 First Published: 03 September 2024 Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock-ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero Milan Babić, Daniel Mertens Pages: 448-468 First Published: 19 September 2024 Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change Jose Atiles, David Whyte Pages: 469-481 First Published: 12 February 2025 The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper-Middle-Income Countries Pieter E. Stek, Renato Lima-de-Oliveira, Thessa Vasudhevan Pages: 482-495 First Published: 05 March 2025 The Rise of Investor-Driven Climate Governance: From Myth to Insti…

Volume 19, issue 2 is now out. 📖

See the table of contents 👇
Issue includes a special issue on 'Greening the Economy: Toward a New Political Economy'

Other articles on #lobbying #implementation #intermediaries #procurement

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17485991...

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The language of "smuggling gangs" is used to justify anti-migrant legislation.
Using the language of #intermediaries emphasises the policy decisions that force migrants to turn intermediaries in the first place: the criminalisation of safe routes. Let's use this language instead.
buff.ly/H8UBLiF

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Credible assurances about the invisible qualities of goods and services – such as sustainability features – are key to market governance. The theory of regulatory intermediaries offers a lens for assessing diverse regulatory contexts where differently configured actors serve as market-assurance intermediaries between rule-makers and rule-targets. Studies using this theory have clarified the consequences of these configurations for regulatory capture, co-regulation, feedback effects, and the (re)production of knowledge and power. However, the distinction and relations between organisational and individual intermediaries remain under theorised. We reconceptualise the individual capacities of expertise and independence and assess these for 283 individuals performing 312 seafood sustainability audits for the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Examining the individuals and teams performing these audits uncovers otherwise invisible biases within intermediary processes, including in assessors’ professional, educational and personal backgrounds, the composition of assessment teams and assessors’ experience in conducting MSC audits. The analysis highlights that intermediary capacities are co-determined by individual assessors and audit organisations and are only partly under the control of the MSC as regulator. A shift to an individual level of analysis thus elucidates new consequences for the legitimacy of the regulator and intermediaries and for the (re)production of power and inequities in global market governance.

ABSTRACT Credible assurances about the invisible qualities of goods and services – such as sustainability features – are key to market governance. The theory of regulatory intermediaries offers a lens for assessing diverse regulatory contexts where differently configured actors serve as market-assurance intermediaries between rule-makers and rule-targets. Studies using this theory have clarified the consequences of these configurations for regulatory capture, co-regulation, feedback effects, and the (re)production of knowledge and power. However, the distinction and relations between organisational and individual intermediaries remain under theorised. We reconceptualise the individual capacities of expertise and independence and assess these for 283 individuals performing 312 seafood sustainability audits for the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Examining the individuals and teams performing these audits uncovers otherwise invisible biases within intermediary processes, including in assessors’ professional, educational and personal backgrounds, the composition of assessment teams and assessors’ experience in conducting MSC audits. The analysis highlights that intermediary capacities are co-determined by individual assessors and audit organisations and are only partly under the control of the MSC as regulator. A shift to an individual level of analysis thus elucidates new consequences for the legitimacy of the regulator and intermediaries and for the (re)production of power and inequities in global market governance.

Latest article w/ Stefan Renckens in New Political Economy

'Rethinking capacities of regulatory market-assurance intermediaries: the case of seafood sustainability audits'

#openaccess #privateregulation #intermediaries #fisheries

Abstract below 👇

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Evidence intermediary organisations – what should their future be? Moving beyond a definitional morass

Evidence intermediary organisations: what should their future be?

@annetteboaz.bsky.social & Jonathan Breckon reflect on possibilities and potential for #evidence #intermediaries to

🌱 share learning and evaluate
🤝🏼 collaborate
➰ be more inclusive

🔗 transforming-evidence.org/blog/evidenc...

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The #IndianOcean #Symposium and #BookLaunch by Ravi Ahuja concluded the week-long #WinterSchool: In-Between #Intermediaries and #IntermediatePlaces in #GlobalLabour Past & Present.

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Impressions of Day 2 of the #WinterSchool on #Intermediaries and #IntermediatePlaces with lectures, panels and teaching blocks conducted by Paola Revilla Orías, Hanne Østhus, Christian G. de Vito & Michaela Dimmers.

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Lula Pressures Petrobras to Cut Fuel Intermediaries ow.ly/sIyh50V1LWZ #Brazil #Petrobras #Lula #FuelPrices #Intermediaries #OilMarket #DieselPrices #EnergyPolicy #GovernmentPressure #ConsumerProtection

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Opening remarks by @mwfdelhi.bsky.social #Director Sebastian Schwecke today at the #WinterSchool: In-between #Intermediaries and #IntermediatePlaces, followed by a #keynote by Crispin Bates

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This is a Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC concept map showing organizations in Chicago who act as intermediaries to support groups of youth serving organizations.  Each node as a link to the organization's website.

The bottom half of the map is aspirational. I don't know of anyone hosting lists of businesses, faith groups, foundations, supporting youth tutor/mentor programs.

This is a Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC concept map showing organizations in Chicago who act as intermediaries to support groups of youth serving organizations. Each node as a link to the organization's website. The bottom half of the map is aspirational. I don't know of anyone hosting lists of businesses, faith groups, foundations, supporting youth tutor/mentor programs.

This #ConceptMap shows orgs in #Chicago who serve as #Intermediaries, helping groups of organizations. cmapspublic.ihmc.us/rid=1KJ51SZK...

I'd love to find them all on BlueSky, sharing ideas, pointing to each other. If you find them please share this.

Do you have a map like this for your city?

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Dialogues on #ClimateChange invited me to write on #socialmedia communication about climatechange for the inaugural issue
👉https://lnkd.in/eZdsHV7a (open access)

I discuss the #shortvideo revolution, #influencers as new #intermediaries, impacts on #climatejournalism, #darkplatforms, #GenAI etc.

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In library I have built since 1990s, I try to link to other #intermediaries who host similar libraries, for cities beyond #Chicago

I hope to find the on Bluesky, too.

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The Intermediaries The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich., The Intermediaries, A Weimar Story, Brandy Schillace, 9781324036319

I am?!!! [Imagine a speech balloon with an AAAAAAAHHHHWWWWW!!! in huge capitals.] Good thing then I promoted your upcoming book "The #Intermediaries" at our conference on Saturday when we were on Trinitatis cemetery: wwnorton.com/books/978132.... #transgender #histmed #Berlin #Dresden

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Imagine. If as with #crypto you eliminate the #intermediaries aka #middleman, think if you eliminate the #retailers and buy from the #producers or at least from the #distributors. How much would you/we/All save?

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ALL staff, systems & processes need to be #trauma & #culturally informed to understand YP’s #communication needs, incl the need for #CommunicationAssistants or #intermediaries to enable ppl to participate in legal processes: “Take our the blah!” #AIJAyouth2019

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»The idea of experimentation is to allow failure and create a momentum for change« Quote from @paulakivim from @SYKEinfo & @sussexuni who visited us today and gave insights on her research on #intermediaries and #innovationpolicy. Enjoy your stay👋 #ISISeminar

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#FakeNews #PrivateCensorship #Google #FoE #intermediaries #ads https://x.com/Johnribeiro/status/798364790728986624

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#FakeNews #PrivateCensorship #Facebook #intermediaries #FoE #ads https://x.com/Walldo/status/798350400046829568

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