Understanding Regulation: Theory, Strategy, and Practice by Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, Martin Lodge

By Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, Martin Lodge

Rules is a key drawback of industries, shoppers, electorate, and governments alike. construction at the good fortune of the 1st version, figuring out law, moment version presents the reader with an creation to key debates and discussions within the box of legislation from a couple of disciplinary views, having a look in the direction of legislations, economics, company, political technological know-how, sociology, and social management.

The ebook has been widely revised and up-to-date take into consideration the numerous advancements and occasions of the earlier decade. Containing a number of new chapters, it's been thoroughly restructured into seven components, overlaying: the basic concerns concerning rules; forms of regulatory innovations; principles and enforcement; caliber and assessment; law at various degrees of presidency; community matters; and concluding thoughts.

Drawing on cross-sectoral and cross-national examples, this e-book stories the imperative questions of law, and displays upon these contentious concerns that have an effect on the layout and operation of regulatory associations. among different subject matters, it discusses "better regulation," enforcement, self-regulation, probability legislation, cost-benefit research, and extra application regulation-oriented themes, equivalent to price-setting. it is going to be a necessary source for teachers, researchers, and graduates around the social sciences learning law.

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By Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, Martin Lodge

Rules is a key drawback of industries, shoppers, electorate, and governments alike. construction at the good fortune of the 1st version, figuring out law, moment version presents the reader with an creation to key debates and discussions within the box of legislation from a couple of disciplinary views, having a look in the direction of legislations, economics, company, political technological know-how, sociology, and social management.

The ebook has been widely revised and up-to-date take into consideration the numerous advancements and occasions of the earlier decade. Containing a number of new chapters, it's been thoroughly restructured into seven components, overlaying: the basic concerns concerning rules; forms of regulatory innovations; principles and enforcement; caliber and assessment; law at various degrees of presidency; community matters; and concluding thoughts.

Drawing on cross-sectoral and cross-national examples, this e-book stories the imperative questions of law, and displays upon these contentious concerns that have an effect on the layout and operation of regulatory associations. among different subject matters, it discusses "better regulation," enforcement, self-regulation, probability legislation, cost-benefit research, and extra application regulation-oriented themes, equivalent to price-setting. it is going to be a necessary source for teachers, researchers, and graduates around the social sciences learning law.

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It is accordingly less costly to society to have production carried out by one firm than by many. Thus, rather than have three railway or electricity companies laying separate networks of rails or cables where one would do, it may be more efficient to give one firm a monopoly subject to regulation of such matters as prices and access to the network. Determining whether a natural monopoly exists requires a comparison of demand for the product with the extent of the economies of scale available in production.

For other definitions of good or better regulation see Mandelkern Group on Better Regulation, Final Report (Brussels, 13 Nov. 2002) (‘Mandelkern Report’). 10 If Parliament is yet to provide a mandate because no regulatory statute has been passed in an area— say, when a regulatory Bill is being debated—any discussion of ‘good’ regulation is more open-ended than usual. Reference, in such circumstances, is likely to be made to the four criteria other than the mandate that are discussed here and also to governmental claims to possess a mandate for a certain regulatory approach (based, for instance, on manifesto statements) and to more general arguments concerning social justice.

Veljanovski, ‘Regulation by Cost Benefit Analysis’ (1984) 62 Public Administration 51. 23 See Prosser, Law and the Regulators, 15–24; ‘Regulation and Social Solidarity’ (2006) 33 Journal of Law and Society 364–87. 24 C. Foster, Privatisation, Public Ownership and the Regulation of Natural Monopoly (Oxford, 1992), ch. 9. 25 Prosser, Law and the Regulators, 24. See also Chapter 2, above, on rationales for regulating and Chapter 15, below, on the application of cost-benefit testing to regulation. 32 FUNDAMENTALS The Role of the Five Criteria The above five claims, it can be seen, are all fraught with difficulties but collectively they constitute a set of benchmarks for assessing regulatory regimes.

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