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This up-to-date book takes a fresh look at regulation and risk and
argues that the allure of regulation lies in its capacity to reduce
risk while preserving the benefits of trade, travel and commerce.
Regulation appears as a politically attractive, targeted and
effective way to ensure that disasters of the past are not
repeated. Diverse challenges are tackled through regulatory means -
including the industrial, financial and terrorist-related hazards
analyzed in this book. Fiona Haines' empirical work shows, however,
that regulation attempts to reduce risks beyond their stated remit
of preventing future disaster. Her analysis reveals a complex nexus
between risk and regulation where fulfilment of regulatory
potential depends on managing three fundamentally different types
of risk: actuarial, socio-cultural and political. This complex risk
management task affects both reform and compliance efforts,
generating tension and paradoxical outcomes. Nonetheless, Haines
argues, enhancing political legitimacy and public reassurance are
central, not peripheral, to successful regulation. This insightful
book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate
researchers working in regulation across law, politics, sociology,
criminology and public management. Masters of public management,
MBA students, public administrators and regulators, as well as
political commentators, will also find this book invaluable.
This up-to-date book takes a fresh look at regulation and risk and
argues that the allure of regulation lies in its capacity to reduce
risk while preserving the benefits of trade, travel and commerce.
Regulation appears as a politically attractive, targeted and
effective way to ensure that disasters of the past are not
repeated. Diverse challenges are tackled through regulatory means -
including the industrial, financial and terrorist-related hazards
analyzed in this book. Fiona Haines' empirical work shows, however,
that regulation attempts to reduce risks beyond their stated remit
of preventing future disaster. Her analysis reveals a complex nexus
between risk and regulation where fulfilment of regulatory
potential depends on managing three fundamentally different types
of risk: actuarial, socio-cultural and political. This complex risk
management task affects both reform and compliance efforts,
generating tension and paradoxical outcomes. Nonetheless, Haines
argues, enhancing political legitimacy and public reassurance are
central, not peripheral, to successful regulation. This insightful
book will appeal to academics, researchers and postgraduate
researchers working in regulation across law, politics, sociology,
criminology and public management. Masters of public management,
MBA students, public administrators and regulators, as well as
political commentators, will also find this book invaluable.
Originally published in 2005. Uniting critical debates on
globalization with those on regulation, this book provides an
innovative account of the fate of safety regulation in the face of
global pressures. The author addresses the key question of whether
globalization is making safety standards better or worse. She
analyzes the diverse strands of globalization that threaten safety
standards and examines the measures that hold potential for
beneficial change. Regulatory character, a theoretical model that
captures local economic, political and cultural influence developed
in the work, sheds light on how and why regulation and safety
standards do or do not change in the face of a crisis. The
theoretical work is grounded and illuminated by research on the
Thai government's response to the Kader fire, set in the rapidly
industrializing context of Southeast Asia. Theoretically rigorous
and empirically rich, the book has critical contemporary social
relevance. It demonstrates a diverse theoretical heritage
(embracing Weber, Douglas and Christopher Hood amongst others) that
critically and productively engages with research and policy making
to raise safety standards.
Originally published in 2005. Uniting critical debates on
globalization with those on regulation, this book provides an
innovative account of the fate of safety regulation in the face of
global pressures. The author addresses the key question of whether
globalization is making safety standards better or worse. She
analyzes the diverse strands of globalization that threaten safety
standards and examines the measures that hold potential for
beneficial change. Regulatory character, a theoretical model that
captures local economic, political and cultural influence developed
in the work, sheds light on how and why regulation and safety
standards do or do not change in the face of a crisis. The
theoretical work is grounded and illuminated by research on the
Thai government's response to the Kader fire, set in the rapidly
industrializing context of Southeast Asia. Theoretically rigorous
and empirically rich, the book has critical contemporary social
relevance. It demonstrates a diverse theoretical heritage
(embracing Weber, Douglas and Christopher Hood amongst others) that
critically and productively engages with research and policy making
to raise safety standards.
This volume brings together key articles in the burgeoning field of
regulation. The collection is interdisciplinary, in keeping with
study of regulation itself, yet the book arranges and explores
these articles to make the bewildering array of issues and concepts
that comprise the study of regulation comprehensible to a
criminological audience. It will be of interest to all scholars and
students of criminology and criminal justice, as well as those
concerned with reducing the crimes and harms of the powerful.
The issue of whether transnational risk can be regulated through a
social sphere goes to the heart of what John Ruggie has described
as 'embedded liberalism': how capitalist countries have reconciled
markets with the social community that markets require to survive
and thrive. This collection, located in the wider debates about
global capitalism and its regulation, tackles the challenge of
finding a way forward for regulation. It rejects the old divisions
of state and market, citizens and consumers, social movements and
transnational corporations, as well as 'economic' and 'social'
regulation. Instead this rich, multidisciplinary collection engages
with a critical theme-the idea of harnessing the regulatory
capacity of a social sphere by recognising the embeddedness of
economic transactions within a social and political landscape. This
collection therefore explores how social norms, practices, actors
and institutions frame economic transactions, and thereby regulate
risks generated by and for business, state and citizens. A key
strength of this book is its integration of three distinct areas of
scholarship: Karl Polanyi's economic sociology, regulation studies
and socio-legal studies of transnational hazards. The collection is
distinct in that it links the study of specific transnational risk
regulatory regimes back to a social-theoretical discussion about
economy-society interactions, informed by Polanyi's work. Each of
the chapters addresses the way in which economics, as well as
economic and social regulation, can never be understood separately
from the social, particularly in the transnational context.
Endorsement 'This thought-provoking collection asks the most
critical question of our time - how to civilise markets through
social accountability and political action. The climate and
financial crises we face show how crucial this challenge is. Lange,
Haines and Thomas have put together a series of fruitful case
studies of the possibilities for embedding economic relationships
in social relationships by a series of top-class researchers within
their own illuminating and sensitive framing of the issue'.
Professor Christine Parker, Professor of Regulatory Studies at
Monash University.
The issue of whether transnational risk can be regulated through a
social sphere goes to the heart of what John Ruggie has described
as 'embedded liberalism': how capitalist countries have reconciled
markets with the social community that markets require to survive
and thrive. This collection, located in the wider debates about
global capitalism and its regulation, tackles the challenge of
finding a way forward for regulation. It rejects the old divisions
of state and market, citizens and consumers, social movements and
transnational corporations, as well as 'economic' and 'social'
regulation. Instead this rich, multidisciplinary collection engages
with a critical theme-the idea of harnessing the regulatory
capacity of a social sphere by recognising the embeddedness of
economic transactions within a social and political landscape. This
collection therefore explores how social norms, practices, actors
and institutions frame economic transactions, and thereby regulate
risks generated by and for business, state and citizens. A key
strength of this book is its integration of three distinct areas of
scholarship: Karl Polanyi's economic sociology, regulation studies
and socio-legal studies of transnational hazards. The collection is
distinct in that it links the study of specific transnational risk
regulatory regimes back to a social-theoretical discussion about
economy-society interactions, informed by Polanyi's work. Each of
the chapters addresses the way in which economics, as well as
economic and social regulation, can never be understood separately
from the social, particularly in the transnational context.
Endorsement 'This thought-provoking collection asks the most
critical question of our time - how to civilise markets through
social accountability and political action. The climate and
financial crises we face show how crucial this challenge is. Lange,
Haines and Thomas have put together a series of fruitful case
studies of the possibilities for embedding economic relationships
in social relationships by a series of top-class researchers within
their own illuminating and sensitive framing of the issue'.
Professor Christine Parker, Professor of Regulatory Studies at
Monash University.
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