Is that a threat? How differences in stakeholder type and dimensionality of reputational threats matter for gaining influence in regulatory rulemaking University of Antwerp
This paper assesses what type of substantial concerns are most useful to what type of interest group in gaining influence during public consultations. Theoretically, the paper conceptualizes stakeholder comments as reputational threats from key audiences that the agency needs to respond to. Different types of threats are expected to carry different weights coming from different types of stakeholder. The analysis is based on a dataset of 75,116 ...