Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes

Regulatory intermediaries have received attention in the analysis of different policy fields recently. Yet, their role morality-based national governance arrangements is hardly addressed, neither question how regulators incorporate stigmatized private actors. The current special issue contributes to closing this research gap by examining three-party relationship between public regulators, intermediaries, and targets prostitution implementation. This introduction presents a typology indirect moral governance, which based on two dimensions: (1) extent perceive as being trustworthy (2) operational capacities. Leveraging examples from papers issue, we elaborate dimensions lead four forms intermediation. Thus, offers an innovative analytical tool systematizes regulators' responses implementation problems case morality policies value-laden issues more generally, including responsibilization