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This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms
since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so
striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches
to the study of the politics of regulation. The authors call for
the adoption of different and fresh perspectives to examine this
area. The contributors to this volume analyse how regulatory
regimes that were once peculiar to the US and a few industries
have, in recent years, come to define the best practice of
governance over the world capitalist economy and over numerous
social and economic sectors. They go on to suggest various
explanations for the expansion of regulatory institutions,
addressing some of the most critical problems and offering new
methodological techniques to enable further study. The
contributions also provide distinct cross-national and
cross-sectoral comparative approaches, and emphasise the changes in
the economic and social context of regulation and the implications
of these developments on the rise of the regulatory state. These
changes, together with the general advance in the study of
regulation, undoubtedly demand a re-evaluation of the theory of
regulation, its methodologies and scope of application. This book
is a perceptive investigation of recent evolutions in the manner
and extent of governance through regulation. Scholars and students
of comparative politics, public policy, regulation theory,
institutional economics and political sociology will find it to be
essential reading. It will also prove a valuable source of
reference for those working or dealing with regulatory authorities
and for business managers in private industries and services
operating under a regulatory framework.
This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms
since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so
striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches
to the study of the politics of regulation. The authors call for
the adoption of different and fresh perspectives to examine this
area. The contributors to this volume analyse how regulatory
regimes that were once peculiar to the US and a few industries
have, in recent years, come to define the best practice of
governance over the world capitalist economy and over numerous
social and economic sectors. They go on to suggest various
explanations for the expansion of regulatory institutions,
addressing some of the most critical problems and offering new
methodological techniques to enable further study. The
contributions also provide distinct cross-national and
cross-sectoral comparative approaches, and emphasise the changes in
the economic and social context of regulation and the implications
of these developments on the rise of the regulatory state. These
changes, together with the general advance in the study of
regulation, undoubtedly demand a re-evaluation of the theory of
regulation, its methodologies and scope of application. This book
is a perceptive investigation of recent evolutions in the manner
and extent of governance through regulation. Scholars and students
of comparative politics, public policy, regulation theory,
institutional economics and political sociology will find it to be
essential reading. It will also prove a valuable source of
reference for those working or dealing with regulatory authorities
and for business managers in private industries and services
operating under a regulatory framework.
This book explores and assesses the multiple levels at which
linguistic policies can be challenged, devised and enacted, i.e.
sub-national, national and supranational, and the variety of state
and non-state actors involved. Moving beyond descriptive and
normative approaches, it provides an empirical comparative
assessment of the policy responses and strategies deployed to deal
with linguistic diversity and conflicts in Spain, a country where
almost one third of the population is at least bilingual in their
own languages. The Spanish case is then assessed within the
European context, both from the perspective of multilevel influence
and mutual interaction, and from the learning experiences it may
entail for similar or equivalent problems and disputes occurring at
the European level or beyond. This text will be of key interest to
scholars and students of Spanish politics, linguistics, identity
politics and more broadly of European politics and governance,
public policy, education and communication policy and comparative
politics.
Changing Borders in Europe focuses on the territorial dimension of
the European Union. It examines the transformation of state
sovereignty within the EU, the emergence of varied
self-determination claims, and the existence of a tailor-made
architecture of functional borders, established by multiple
agreements. This book helps to understand how self-determination
pressures within the EU are creating growing concerns about member
states' identity, redefining multi-level government in the European
space. It addresses several questions regarding two transformative
processes - blurring of EU borders and state sovereignty shifts -
and their interrelations from different disciplinary perspectives
such as political science, law, political economy and sociology. In
addition, it explores how the variable geographies of European
borders may affect the issue of national self-determination in
Europe, opening spaces for potential accommodations that could be
compatible with existing states and legal frameworks. This book
will be of key interest for scholars, students and practitioners of
EU politics, public administration, political theory, federalism
and more broadly of European studies, international law, ethnic
studies, political economy and the wider social sciences.
This book is the first systematic study of policy analysis
activities in Spain. It provides a comprehensive overview of how
policy actors, including politicians, think tanks, researchers,
interest groups and experts, generate information for the
policy-making process. The book explores how executive and
legislative actors participate in the production of policy analysis
and how all actors elaborate and disseminate information on policy
analysis. Contributors consider the ways different policy actors
are involved in the production of data and information about policy
problems, the resources used to produce policy analysis and the
type of analysis produced over time in different policy areas.
European countries have recently been involved in an extremely
broad set of regulatory changes to introduce competitive markets
into the area of telecommunications. New policies to develop the
information society in Europe are also emerging, taking into
account the changes in regulations. The contributions included in
this book examine several dimensions of these major European
issues, including multi-level governance, the instruments used to
produce these policy changes, and the European idiosyncrasies of
globalisation trends. The authors debate the successes and failures
of European strategies and policies engaged to foster the new IT
based economic revolution, and European multilevel policy-making is
discussed from the perspective of linking telecommunications policy
to the promotion of an information society in Europe. The main
policy instruments used by the European Union to advocate this new
information society are reviewed, and a retrospective analysis of
the 1990s European telecommunications industry transformation from
public monopoly to a competitive market is introduced. This book
will appeal to a wide-ranging audience, including academics in the
fields of public policy, economics, political science, media and
communication studies, and communications engineering. Consultants,
analysts and public servants specialising in telecommunications
policy and information technology issues, along with private and
public telecom executives will also find this book to be of
importance.
This book explores and assesses the multiple levels at which
linguistic policies can be challenged, devised and enacted, i.e.
sub-national, national and supranational, and the variety of state
and non-state actors involved. Moving beyond descriptive and
normative approaches, it provides an empirical comparative
assessment of the policy responses and strategies deployed to deal
with linguistic diversity and conflicts in Spain, a country where
almost one third of the population is at least bilingual in their
own languages. The Spanish case is then assessed within the
European context, both from the perspective of multilevel influence
and mutual interaction, and from the learning experiences it may
entail for similar or equivalent problems and disputes occurring at
the European level or beyond. This text will be of key interest to
scholars and students of Spanish politics, linguistics, identity
politics and more broadly of European politics and governance,
public policy, education and communication policy and comparative
politics.
Changing Borders in Europe focuses on the territorial dimension of
the European Union. It examines the transformation of state
sovereignty within the EU, the emergence of varied
self-determination claims, and the existence of a tailor-made
architecture of functional borders, established by multiple
agreements. This book helps to understand how self-determination
pressures within the EU are creating growing concerns about member
states' identity, redefining multi-level government in the European
space. It addresses several questions regarding two transformative
processes - blurring of EU borders and state sovereignty shifts -
and their interrelations from different disciplinary perspectives
such as political science, law, political economy and sociology. In
addition, it explores how the variable geographies of European
borders may affect the issue of national self-determination in
Europe, opening spaces for potential accommodations that could be
compatible with existing states and legal frameworks. This book
will be of key interest for scholars, students and practitioners of
EU politics, public administration, political theory, federalism
and more broadly of European studies, international law, ethnic
studies, political economy and the wider social sciences.
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