Regulatory Theory : Foundations and Applications.

Intro -- Abbreviations -- Boxes, figures and tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Regulation, institutions and networks -- Section 1: Social psychological foundations and methodological issues -- Closing the gap between regulation and the community -- Procedural justice and its role in promoting voluntary compliance -- Shame in regulatory settings -- Methodological approaches and considerations in regulatory research -- Multi-sited fieldwork in regulatory studies -- Section 2: Theories and concepts of regulation -- Types of responsiveness -- Smart regulation -- Meta-regulation -- A nodal perspective of governance: Advances in nodal governance thinking -- Regulation and risk -- Public accountability: Conceptual, historical and epistemic mappings -- Compliance: 14 questions -- Legal pluralism: The regulation of traditional medicine in the Cook Islands -- Section 3: The state and regulatory transformations -- Regulatory globalisation -- The regulatory state and beyond -- Regulatory capitalism -- Time and temporality in global governance -- International negotiations -- Transnational non-state regulatory regimes -- Section 4: Rights-based regulation -- A regulatory perspective on the international human rights system -- Global governance of labour migration: From 'management' of migration to an integrated rights-based approach -- Regulatory rule of law -- Regulating sex in peace operations -- Holding individuals to account beyond the state? Rights, regulation and the resort to international criminal responsibility -- Section 5: Crime and regulation -- Controlling crime through networks -- Scaling criminology: From street violence to atrocity crimes -- Experiments in restorative justice -- Prevention of transnational environmental crime and regulatory pluralism -- Spam and crime -- The governance of cyberspace -- Section 6: Regulating for health.

Scientific evaluation of law's effects on public health -- Governance, regulation and health equity -- Patients as regulatory actors in their own health care -- The regulation of work health and safety -- Section 7: The regulation of commerce -- Consumer protection: A case of successful regulation -- Shifting profits and hidden accounts: Regulating tax havens -- Investor-state dispute settlement -- The networked (agency) regulation of competition -- Trust, culture and the limits of management-based regulation: Lessons from the mining industry -- Urban sustainability and resilience -- Jeroen van der Heijden -- Environmental regulation and governance -- Section 8: Regulatory futures -- Regulating capitalism's processes of destruction.

This volume introduces readers to regulatory theory. Aimed at practitioners, postgraduate students and those interested in regulation as a cross-cutting theme in the social sciences, Regulatory Theory includes chapters on the social-psychological foundations of regulation as well as theories of regulation.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.