The Regulatory State in an Age of Governance

Download or read book The Regulatory State in an Age of Governance written by Roger King and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.