2012
DOI: 10.1111/rego.12003
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Why was the enforcement pyramid so influential? And what price was paid?

Abstract: Although responsive regulation includes much more than the enforcement pyramid, it is the pyramid that has received most attention from academics and practitioners. This is despite the fact that the implementation of the strategy of gradual escalation has proved challenging in many respects. Why has the enforcement pyramid been so attractive? Apart from its scholarly and policy usefulness, this paper suggests that it appeals to practitioners because it provides a theoretical endorsement of the professional aut… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
2
1
1

Citation Types

0
52
0
5

Year Published

2016
2016
2019
2019

Publication Types

Select...
4
3
1

Relationship

0
8

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 66 publications
(57 citation statements)
references
References 35 publications
0
52
0
5
Order By: Relevance
“…It has been noted that the enforcement pyramid reflects how inspectors are inclined to behave in practice. When shown to them, inspectors perceive it as common sense, and react saying "we already do that" [15]. What I am adding is that the gradient of force only works when the firms need to remain members of the shared world, i.e.…”
Section: Negotiations In Intersecting Social Worlds Rather Than Implmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It has been noted that the enforcement pyramid reflects how inspectors are inclined to behave in practice. When shown to them, inspectors perceive it as common sense, and react saying "we already do that" [15]. What I am adding is that the gradient of force only works when the firms need to remain members of the shared world, i.e.…”
Section: Negotiations In Intersecting Social Worlds Rather Than Implmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It may be that expert regulatory agencies are better able to respond to ideas and innovations whereas governments as a whole, in their legislative function, are, first, less expert and, second, overcome by political imperatives to adopt measures that indicate at least symbolic commitment to an aspiration to control matters. This may provide an explanation for other core ideas in responsive regulation, beyond the enforcement pyramid and technique pyramid, receiving an even poorer reception, with the consequence that much in responsive regulation theory that was most insightful about the relationship of the state to other key actors has been neglected (Mascini 2013). 3. Regulatory capitalism beyond the state I have previously suggested in my own work that Braithwaite's work overemphasises the role of the state in contemporary regulatory governance (Scott 2004;see also Grabosky 2013).…”
Section: Regulatory Designmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With enforcement, my own experience asking regulators about how they enforce their rules is that most describe something like the enforcement pyramid, many have been schooled in it and those who have not mostly recognise an outline pyramid and can discuss in articulate fashion the particular components of their own pyramid and how they relate to each other (see also Braithwaite 2011: 480;Mascini 2013;Parker 2013: 3-4). Many regulators have engaged directly with the enforcement pyramid and, increasingly, governments drawing up legislation have become cognisant of the importance of making available a range of gradated sanctions to avoid the risk of the broken pyramid.…”
Section: Regulatory Designmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…See on the pyramid also Mascini (2013) 2016 self-regulation, to informational regulation (e.g. 'naming and shaming'), competition-based regulation (e.g.…”
mentioning
confidence: 99%