This paper develops a framework for analyzing the political-administrative capacity of public authorities to respond to transboundary crises (such as pandemics, cyberattacks and prolonged critical infrastructure failure). To complement our traditional notion of capacity as a fixed set of skills,...

In both Europe and the U.S., pesticide regulation has long been established as a legitimate field of public health and environmental protection. Many of the techniques and institutional frameworks of pesticide regulation are well established and shared on both sides of the Atlantic. Our...