Regulatory State in an Age of Governance Soft Words and Big Sticks

by King, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780230500396
• ISBN10: 0230500390
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This is a highly readable and comprehensive account of the regulatory state and governance. It examines both key concepts and theories and important policy domains, and utilises comparative, historical and transnational perspectives. A critical theme is consideration of whether the regulatory state that has developed in recent decades, often as an accompaniment to marketization public policies, is an authoritarian or a liberalizing mode of governance.

Author Biography

ROGER KING is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information at The Open University and a Higher Education Consultant. Previously he was Vice Chancellor of the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside (now Lincoln). He writes and researches on comparative policymaking and regulatory governance.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Analysing the Regulatory State
Regulation as a Mode of Governance	p. 3
The Development of the Regulatory State in the UK	p. 34
Governance in the Regulatory State	p. 63
The European Regulatory State	p. 93
Transnational Regulatory Governance	p. 123
The Different Worlds of the Regulatory State: Policy Domains in the UK
Higher Education: The Ambiguous Regulatory State	p. 151
Healthcare: The Insuring Regulatory State	p. 167
Accountancy and Law: The Private Regulatory State	p. 188
Conclusion	p. 208
Bibliography	p. 214
Index	p. 223
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