The Regulatory State in an Age of Governance: Soft Words and Big Sticks


ISBN13: 9780230500396
ISBN: 0230500390
Published: September 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: UK
Binding: Hardback
Price: £45.00

This is a highly readable and comprehensive account of the regulatory state and governance. It examines both key concepts and theories and important policy domains, and utilizes comparative, historical and transnational perspectives. A critical theme is consideration of whether the regulatory state that has developed in recent decades, often as an accompaniment to marketization public policies, is an authoritarian or a liberalizing mode of governance.