Applications of Responsive Regulatory Theory in Australia and Overseas: Update

Wood, Charlotte; Ivec, Mary; Job, Jenny; Braithwaite, Valerie

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“…Such approaches recognise that while constructed by governments, markets are maintained by a wider array of regulatory actors operating at different scales of regulatory activity, from the macro-level of formal state apparatus to the micro-level of frontline service work, where regulation is implemented and shapes (and is shaped) by the experiences of people with disabilities. Few studies have captured the voices of regulatory actors, including those who are themselves subject to regulation, despite calls for regulators to "tune in" to their intended subjects, to ensure high level design translates into practice (Ivec & Braithwaite, 2015). Formal regulatory design expresses a vision of markets, and sets out how risks and costs should be balanced and borne, including by different groups of people with disabilities, provider organisations, frontline workers, and the state.…”

Section: Building Critical Perspectives On Regulationmentioning

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Commentary on “Regulating disability services: the case of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme quality and safeguarding system” (Hough, 2021)

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Toorn

2021

Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabil

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Too many people with disabilities (including people with intellectual and developmental disabilities), are harmed in family, community, and workplace settings, and in the course of using the formal services intended to support and empower (CRE-DH (Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health), 2021; Dowse et al., 2013). As Hough (2021) reminded us, in Australia as in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, such harms have been popularly framed as individual incidents or "scandals," the most serious of which have triggered official inquiries, together generating hundreds of recommendations for change. Hough (2021) has made way for an expanded focus, turning attention from these individual occurrences of harm in disability service settings, to examine the ways regulatory arrangements are designed to prevent and address harm across the service system.Hough (2021) has a strong case for drawing on the underutilised tools of regulation theory to examine the quality and safeguarding arrangements that operate within Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). While key regulatory concepts, such as "gaming," "ritualism," and "responsive regulation" were developed in the context of Australian aged care research (Braithwaite et al., 2007), regulatory theory appears to have had surprisingly little use in informing new arrangements in disability services. Hough (2021) has demonstrated how general literature on regulation theory offers a helpful basis for understanding the structure and operation of regulatory arrangements under the NDIS.To do this, he has drawn on regulatory theorists such as Ayres and Braithwaite (1992) and Baldwin et al. (2012), to identify and situate the formal regulatory mechanisms of the NDIS, examine their role, and set some conceptual foundations for assessing the adequacy of NDIS regulation for preventing and addressing harm. The work provides an unsettling reminder of the ways the formal regulatory architecture now in place was developed, not out of careful theorisation or evaluation of evidence, but rather from a series of inherently political design choices and trade-offs. By demonstrating opportunities for connection across otherwise disconnected bodies of thinking,

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Commentary on “Regulating disability services: the case of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme quality and safeguarding system” (Hough, 2021)

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Toorn

2021

Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabil

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“…In essence what in public health is often called agency. There are many regulatory approaches located across the continuum of structure and agency which can be used to create change away from the status quo (Ivec and Braithwaite, ). As discussed below, depending on how these different regulatory approaches are used can be good or bad for health, the environment and social equity.…”

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A Time for Hope? Pursuing a Vision of a Fair, Sustainable and Healthy World

Friel

2018

Global Policy

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The confluence of social and health inequities and global environmental degradation shines a light on fundamental ruptures in society. A systems view of humanity reminds us that this status quo is not static, and that the shifting political and economic sands provide an important window of opportunity to collectively change the system towards the public good, such that communities are able to live with good health, dignity and in an environmentally sustainable way. To enable this, global policy, and in particular global health policy must break out of the policy silos and refocus in a systems way. If the system is to adapt, an ambitious vision for the system is needed that is different to the status quo. No one regulatory model that can improve complex societal problems, rather we must use a plurality of approaches. Reorienting the system to achieve positive outcomes depends on reimagining the purpose of structural regulatory powers, and the releasing the agency of networks of concerned actors. In a hyper-connected world there are many partners to help create systems of hope.

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“…Is this so obvious that a meta‐analysis is hardly needed? However banal, responsive regulatory theory has been controversial and almost never embraced by regulators in the United States even if frequently adopted as government policy by regulators in the South Pacific, Canada, and Europe (Hodges, ; Ivec, Braithwaite, Wood, and Job, ). A common pushback by corporate crime scholars is that responsive regulation is too soft.…”

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Criminology & Public Policy

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Applications of Responsive Regulatory Theory in Australia and Overseas: Update

Cited by 19 publications

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Commentary on “Regulating disability services: the case of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme quality and safeguarding system” (Hough, 2021)

Commentary on “Regulating disability services: the case of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme quality and safeguarding system” (Hough, 2021)

A Time for Hope? Pursuing a Vision of a Fair, Sustainable and Healthy World

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