The Oxford Handbook of Regulation

by Baldwin, Robert; Cave, Martin; Lodge, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780199560219
• ISBN10: 0199560218
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Regulation is often thought of as an activity that restricts behaviour and prevents the occurrence of certain undesirable activities, but the influence of regulation can also be enabling or facilitative, as when a market could potentially be chaotic if uncontrolled. This Handbook provides aclear and authoritative discussion of the major trends and issues in regulation over the last thirty years, together with an outline of prospective developments. It brings together contributions from leading scholars from a range of disciplines and countries.Each chapter offers a broad overview of key current issues and provides an analysis of different perspectives on those issues. Experiences in different jurisdictions and insights from various disciplines are drawn upon, and particular attention is paid to the challenges that are encountered whenspecific approaches are applied in practice. Contributors develop their own distinctive arguments relating to the central issues in regulation and apply scholarly rigour and clear writing to matters of high policy-relevance. The essays are original, accessible, and agenda-setting, and the Handbookwill be essential reading both to students and researchers and to with regulatory and regulated professionals.

Author Biography

Martin Cave is Professor and Director of the Centre for Management under Regulation at Warwick Business School. He has advised many economic regulators throughout the world.

Robert Baldwin is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published extensively on regulation, has wide consultative experience in regulation and is the Director of the LSE Short Course on Regulation.
Martin Lodge is Reader in Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and teaching interests are in the comparative study of Executive Government and Regulation.

Table of Contents

Overview: The Study and Field of Regulation

Regulation: The Field, The Concept and the State of the Art

Theories of Regulation: Economic

Theories of Regulation: Institutional and Other

The Regulatory State

Processes and Strategies

Enforcement and Compliance Seeking

Gaming Regulation: Corporate Management of Controls

Standard Setting (State and Non-State)

Self- Regulation and Meta-Regulation

Self Regulation and the Professions

Current Issues

Alternatives to Regulation: Market Mechanisms and the Environment

Measuring Regulatory Performance

Better Regulation and Regulatory Burdens

Regulation, Competition Policy and Consumer Protection

Price Controls

Regulatory Impact Assessments

Risk and the Regulatory Process

Participation, Accountability and Transparency

Regulation and Development

Regulation at the EU level

Regulation at the Global Level

Regulatory Domains

Telecommunications, Broadcasting, and Posts

Cyberspace

Pharmaceuticals

Energy

Financial Markets and Financial Services

Regulation of the Public Sector

The Future of Regulation

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