Regulation and Regime: A Comparative Analysis

Elkin, Stephen L.

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“…2001, p. 12). Here, risk regulators locate the intellectual origins of their approach in regime theory across several other fields of social science, notably international relations (Krasner 1983), public policy (Elkin 1986), political science (Dowding 1996), systems theory (Beer 1966), and organizational and institutional theory (Stringer 1967).…”

Section: From the Regulatory State To Regulatory Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At the meso-level, the analysis is situated between the macro whole-society notions of the regulatory state and the micro level of single case studies of policy settings appropriate for particular risks (Hood et al 2001, p. 12). Here, risk regulators locate the intellectual origins of their approach in regime theory across several other fields of social science, notably international relations (Krasner 1983), public policy (Elkin 1986), political science (Dowding 1996), systems theory (Beer 1966), and organizational and institutional theory (Stringer 1967).…”

Section: From the Regulatory State To Regulatory Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The regulatory state and the UK Labour Government's re‐regulation of provision in the English National Health Service

Wright

2009

Regulation & Governance

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Following its election in 1997, the UK Labour Government embarked upon a 10 year program of reform of the National Health Service (NHS). By 2005, Labour had doubled the NHS budget and dramatically transformed the shape of the Service. In England, a basic characteristic of the NHS is the organizational split between provider and commissioning agencies. In this article I argue that Labour's re‐regulation of NHS provision is a coherent representation of the influence of the “regulatory state” in restructuring arrangements between government, market, and society. The article offers an account of the regulatory state based on a discussion of five key theses: The Audit Society, Regulation Inside Government, The New Regulatory State, The British Regulatory State, and Regulatory Capitalism. The article unfolds Labour's program of reform across themes common to these accounts: the division of labor between state and society, the division of labor within the state, the formalization of previously informal controls, and the development of meta‐regulatory techniques of enforced self‐regulation. It concludes that the key themes of the regulatory state are at work in Labour's transformation of NHS provision and it offers a discussion of the implications for both scholars of regulation and the UK and European health policy literature.

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Section: From the Regulatory State To Regulatory Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From the Regulatory State To Regulatory Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The regulatory state and the UK Labour Government's re‐regulation of provision in the English National Health Service

Wright

2009

Regulation & Governance

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“…improvement of design in the public interest, as an appropriate aim (Elkin 1986). The expectation in such places will be that processes of design governance remain largely the responsibility of the state.…”

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Design governance: theorizing an urban design sub-field

Carmona¹

2016

Journal of Urban Design

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This paper introduces and theorizes the practices of design governance: the process of state-sanctioned intervention in the means and processes of designing the built environment in order to shape both processes and outcomes in a defined public interest. The paper is in three parts. The first briefly addresses 'why' the public sector should seek to intervene in design, in other words the motivations behind design governance. The second and third parts address respectively the 'what' and 'how' questions; what is design governance and how does it occur? They do this by dissecting the concept and investigating a number of recurring debates in the literature that reveal key conceptual threads and problematics running through these practices. The result, and the key contribution of this paper, is a new set of concepts through which to understand the governance of design as a distinct and important sub-field of urban design. Why the public sector intervenes in designDefining the field Put simply, this paper focuses on the role of the state (public sector) in how we design the built environment. We can christen this activity 'design governance' and define it as: 'The process of state-sanctioned intervention in the means and processes of designing the built environment in order to shape both processes and outcomes in a defined public interest' (Carmona 2013a).This activity is nothing new. Since ancient times human beliefs and philosophies have been reflected in a diverse range of local codes that dictate the form and layout of buildings, monuments and settlements, whether related to natural phenomenon (on Earth or in the stars) or to superstitions, creeds and practices of human and / or spiritual origin. The use of Feng Shui from 4000 BC onwards in China; the layout of ritual landscapes such as Stonehenge in England from 3000 BC; the design of religious buildings across today's Christian, Islamic and Hindu worlds; and the layout of sacred sites in the great civilizations of the past, in ancient Egypt, Greece or the Andean civilizations, for example, each share in common the use of prescribed design codes to give meaning and narrative to devotional practices, whether of monarch or deity. Beyond the laws of religious authorities, design has also long been a subject for governmental activity, and societies through the ages have regulated aspects of design for many reasons. In ancient China, for example, the colour yellow was associated with imperial dignity and for many centuries its use on buildings was restricted to the emperors. In Medieval England, the right to use crenellations on a building was controlled by the king because of their association with the building of fortifications, and those wishing to use crenellations had to obtain a licence to crenellate from the twelfth century onwards. From the thirteenth century the development of Siena was regulated by controls on building heights, materials, window shape and building line established by the then nova Government of the republic of Siena. Following the ...

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“…The coordinator of the Transition Town movement, Rob Hopkins, of Plymouth University, helped create the earliest Moving to theoretical analysis, the study of urban politics evolved towards a popular focus upon urban governance in the 1990s (Stoker 1999) it engaged with older regime theory (e.g. (Elkin 1986)) and particularly urban regime theory (Stone 1989;Stone 1993;Stoker & Mossberger 1994). Urban regime theory was based on a critique of the pluralist theory of democracy of the early 1960s (Dahl 1961) and aligned with an élite theory approach associated with Dahl's erstwhile collaborator Charles Lindblom (Lindblom 1977).…”

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Green governance and green clusters: regional & national policies for the climate change challenge of Central & Eastern Europe

Cooke¹

2015

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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This paper focuses on the climate change challenge faced by Central & Eastern European countries both those inside the European Union and those outside it. They have enormous energy intensity and associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, mainly from energy production, which is oil, and worse, coal-fired power stations. As a group of blocs, CEE is a significant actor on the global climate change canvas. Their actions can make a difference. But there are numerous regulatory constraints that make this currently difficult. With the onset of a new global regime consequent on the renegotiation of acceptable levels of GHG emissions at Bali in 2007, to be ratified in Copenhagen in 2009, all countries with levels such a those in CEE will have to reduce emissions significantly as will countries throughout the world, especially the 'big burners' like USA and China. With some data and textured case illustrations the article points the way to mitigation of emissions by learning from Denmark, the world leader as a 'green economy' and Wales, part of the UK which has a long established heavy industry tradition comparable to many CEE countries and where positive change is underway from unlikely sources. JEL: A14; O33; R11; R58Keywords: Green governance; Green innovation; Green clusters; Renewable energy; Wind turbines; Solar thermal energy; Biofuels BackgroundThis contribution involves reflecting on the variety of governance and policy responses by cities to climate change. Climate change refers to the historically measurable increasing rate of atmospheric 'greenhouse gases', particularly carbon dioxide (CO 2 ).While there is debate about the causes of climate change, there is consensus that human activity has made a contribution to it since the onset of industrialisation and especially in the very recent past (Bastianoni et al. 2004). The future contribution of cities to mitigating climate change will concentrate upon the four key content areas that research has shown to be main contributors to increased CO 2 and other greenhouse gases, all of which are connected to urban governance. These are food consumption, passenger transport, energy use and municipal waste. Following one of the numerous Stockholm Environment Institute's reports (Stockholm Environment Institute 2005) consumption of food accounts for some 24 % of emissions making up a

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Regulation and Regime: A Comparative Analysis

Cited by 29 publications

References 14 publications

The regulatory state and the UK Labour Government's re‐regulation of provision in the English National Health Service

The regulatory state and the UK Labour Government's re‐regulation of provision in the English National Health Service

Design governance: theorizing an urban design sub-field

Green governance and green clusters: regional & national policies for the climate change challenge of Central & Eastern Europe

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