Changing regulatory institutions in Britain and North America / edited by G. Bruce Doern and Stephen Wilks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doern, G. Bruce, Author.

Wilks, Stephen, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial policy--Great Britain--Congresses.

Industrial policy.

Trade regulation--Great Britain--Congresses.

Trade regulation.

Great Britain--Commercial policy--Congresses.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Livres numeriques.

Conference papers and proceedings.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation "The world of regulatory institutions has been in a state of flux for the last two decades, and valuable lessons can be learned from a comparative focus on the nature and causes of institutional change and reform in the regulatory agencies and institutions of the United States, Canada, and Great Britain." "The contributing authors, mainly political scientists and legal scholars but also practising regulators, make the case for a much broader conceptual view of regulation, arguing that it is increasingly necessary for key regulatory interests - business and consumers - to understand regulation in terms of an interplay among four regimes: sectoral, framework, intra-cabinet, and international. They also explore inter-regime regulatory institutional relations through case studies to demonstrate how regulatory institutions respond to competing regulatory requirements and to tensions between sectoral utility regulators and competition and environmental regulators." "The book seeks to provide students with a work that focuses on the political and institutional dimensions of regulation, to complement existing studies from the economic and legal perspective."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Contents:

The interplay among regimes : mapping regulatory institutions in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada / G. Bruce Doern

Institutionalization and deinstitutionalization : regulatory institutions in American government / B. Guy Peters

Regulatory institutions in the United Kingdom : increasing regulation in the 'shrinking state' / Brian W. Hogwood

No longer 'governments in miniature' : Canadian sectoral regulatory institutions / Richard Schultz and G. Bruce Doern

Utility regulation, corporate governance, and the amoral corporation / Stephen Wilks

Modelling the consumer interest / Stephen Locke

The theory and practice of regulation in Canada and the United States : opportunities for regulatory learning in the United Kingdom / Margaret M. Hill

Resurgent regulation in the United States / John Francis

Regulatory reform and relations among multiple authorities in the United Kingdom / Peter Vass

Approaches to managing interdependence among regulatory regimes in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States / G. Bruce Doern

The Office of Water Services and the interaction between economic and environmental regulation / Alan Booker

North American environmental regulation / George Hoberg

The Office of Telecommunications : a new competition authority? / Cosmo Graham

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission : transformation in the 1990s / G. Bruce Doern

Conclusions / Stephen Wilks and G. Bruce Doern.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612025983

1-282-02598-8

1-4426-7918-2

OCLC:

923071994