Regulatory State in an Age of Governance

This book provides a much-needed comprehensive analysis of governance and the regulatory state.

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 utilises 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.

ROGER KING is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information at The Open University and a Higher Education Consultant. Previously he was Vice Chancellor of the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside (now Lincoln). He writes and researches on comparative policymaking and regulatory governance.

PART 1: ANALYZING THE REGULATORY STATE * Regulation as a Mode of Governance * The Development of the Regulatory State in the UK * Governance in the Regulatory State * The European Regulatory State * Transnational Regulatory Governance * PART 2: THE DIFFERENT WORLDS OF THE REGULATORY STATE: POLICY DOMAINS IN THE UK * Higher Education: The Ambiguous Regulatory State * Healthcare: The Insuring Regulatory State * Accountancy and Law: The Private Regulatory State * Conclusion