Sentence:  In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. [...]  The public realm is privatised, the <WSD>regulations</WSD> restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.