How Language Works in Politics

Williams, Matthew

doi:10.46692/9781529200218

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“…Data for both countries in this study are based on legislation datasets between 1948 and 2020 2 . The texts of British legislation were derived from two sources: the legislative text for 1948–2015 was derived from Matthew Williams' dataset of British legislation for the period 1900–2015 (Williams, 2018), and the legislative text for 2016–2020 was web‐scraped from http://legislation.gov.uk, the official website for UK legislation. The data include both new legislation and amendments to existing legislation 3 .…”

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Styles of regulatory discretion: A comparative analysis of the British and Israeli education legislation

Kosti

2023

Public Administration

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Regulatory discretion is a central theme in the study of regulation and governance. However, little attention has been paid to the question of how countries vary in the way they design regulatory discretion. This article fills this gap by conceptualizing styles of regulatory discretion according to a novel conceptual framework that distinguishes between three dimensions of regulatory discretion: obligation, content, and procedure. Empirically, the article compares regulatory discretion in British and Israeli education legislation during the period 1948–2020. The findings reveal substantial differences in regulatory discretion styles between the two countries across all three dimensions of regulatory discretion. Accordingly, this article proposes several links between regulatory discretion and regulatory production that can be explored further. In doing this, the article points to the relationship between discretion practices and regulatory outcomes.

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confidence: 99%