Regulatory State in an Age of Governance
Subtitle: Soft Words and Big Sticks
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780230500396
Subjects: Central government policies; Political control & freedoms; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Government - Comparative; Public Affairs & Administration; Political Science / International Relations; International Relations - General; Administrative agencies; Public administration; State, The
Description: This is a highly readable and comprehensive account of the regulatory state in an age of multi-level governance. Argued as a successor to the failed welfare and Keynesian state forms of the mid-to-late twentieth century, the book examines the regulatory state from comparative and historical perspectives, and explores key concepts, theories and policy domains. It looks closely at its relationship with the growth of marketized public policies and discusses whether the regulatory state is essentially a controlling or a liberating form of governance.