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A reader on regulation

edited by Robert Baldwin, Colin Scott, Christopher Hood

(Oxford readings in socio-legal studies)

Oxford University Press, 1998

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780198765295

Description

Regulation has become a key form of state activity and an area of burgeoning academic concern, both in Public Law and Economics. This collection makes available to the reader a number of indispensable readings. The text considers the central topics of regulation and looks to theory as well as practice, enforcement as well as rule-making, and supra-national as well as domestic concerns. Particular attention is paid to the ways that regulatory developments can be explained, the choices of technique that confront regulators and the varieties of regulatory style that are encountered within and between different regimes. The introductory essay considers the maturation of regulation both as a practice and as a discipline. it examines regulation as a topic for study, reviews major developments in regulation and outlines central themes. This book is intended as a resource for upper-level undergraduate students and teachers of regulation as part of degree courses in law, economics, business, public policy and politics, but also for those involved in or subject to regulation on a daily basis.

Table of Contents

  • PART 1: REGULATORY ORIGINS AND REFORM
  • PART 2: STANDARD SETTING AND RULE CHOICES
  • PART 3: VARIETIES OF REGULATORY STYLES AND TECHNIQUES
  • PART 4: VARIETIES OF REGULATORY SCALE
  • PART 5: VARIETY IN ACCOUNTING FOR REGULATION
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780198765301

Description

Regulation has become a key form of state activity and an area of burgeoning academic concern, both in Public Law and Economics. This collection makes available a number of readings. The text considers the central topics of regulation and looks to theory as well as practice, enforcement as well as rule-making, and supra-national as well as domestic concerns. Particular attention is paid to the ways that regulatory developments can be explained, the choices of technique that confront regulators and the varieties of regulatory style that are encountered within and between different regimes. The introductory essay considers the maturation of regulation both as a practice and as a discipline. It examines regulation as a topic for study, reviews major developments in regulation and outlines central themes.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Regulation Grows Up: Into its Prime or Mid-Life Crisis?. PART 1: REGULATORY ORIGINS AND REFORM. Stephen Breyer: Typical Justifications for Regulation. Sam Peltzman: The Economic Theory of Regulation after a Decade of Deregulation. Leigh Hancher and Michael Moran: . Toni Makkai and John Braithwaite: In and Out of the Revolving Door: Making Sense of Regulatory Capture. Giandomenico Majone: The Rise of the Regulatory State in Europe. PART 2: STANDARD SETTING AND RULE CHOICES. Colin Diver: The Optimal Precision of Administrative Rules. Kristin Shrader-Frechette: Uncertainty and the Producer Strategy. Keith Hawkins: Law as Last Resort. Steven Shavell: The Optimal Structure of Law Enforcement. Nancy Reichman: Moving Backstage: Uncovering the Role of Compliance Practices in Shaping Regulatory Policy. PART 3: VARIETIES OF REGULATORY STYLES AND TECHNIQUES. Terence Daintith: Legal Measures and their Analysis. Anthony Ogus: Rethinking Self-Regulation. Gunther Teubner: . PART 4: VARIETIES OF REGULATORY SCALE. Jeanne-Mey Sun and Jacques Pelkmans: Regulatory Competition. PART 5: VARIETY IN ACCOUNTING FOR REGULATION. James Freedman: Crisis and Legitimacy in the administrative process: a historical perspective. Cosmo Graham: Is there a Crisis in Regulatory Accountability?

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