The regulatory state in an age of governance : soft words and big sticks / Roger King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Roger, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Administrative agencies.

State, The.

Physical Description:

xvi, 228 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

This is a highly readable and comprehensive account of the regulatory state in an age of multi-level governance. Argued as a successor to the failed welfare and Keynesian state forms of the mid-to-late twentieth century, the book examines the regulatory state from comparative and historical perspectives, and explores key concepts, theories and policy domains. It looks closely at its relationship with the growth of marketized public policies and discusses whether the regulatory state is essentially a controlling or a liberating form of governance.

Contents:

Regulation as a mode of governance

The development of the regulatory state in the UK

Governance in the regulatory state

The European regulatory state

Transnational regulatory governance

Higher education : the ambiguous regulatory state

Healthcare : the insuring regulatory state

Accountancy and law : the private regulatory state

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-222) and index.

ISBN:

0230500390

9780230500396

OCLC:

132581601

Online:

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description