the british regulatory state high modernism and hyper-innovation jan 2004

[...]... proffer the image of regulation Not surprisingly, therefore, there are competing images of the regulatory state, and not all picture it as a turn to ‘soft’ law and soft bureaucracy In the following pages, therefore, I examine the most important competing images, and show how they jostle with each other when we try to use them to make sense of the thing called the British regulatory state THE REGULATORY STATE. .. one might have with the theory of the European regulatory state, it has the inestimable benefit of setting the British crisis in a wider international setting This is also true of a related body of theory which I call the theory of the smart state, and to which I now turn THE REGULATORY STATE AS A SMART STATE Among the many puzzling features of the changing organization of the state in advanced industrial... of the wider crisis of the Keynesian regulatory state Majone’s account also illuminates key institutional features of the new regulatory state The illumination is provided by his case for Madisonian decision procedures The rise of the regulatory state has also seen the rise of non-majoritarian institutions because they are a functional response to the new tasks and the new IMAGES OF THE REGULATORY STATE. .. monitoring and the skills of lobbying.36 The theory of the European regulatory state is, therefore, a potentially powerful source of illumination and even of exact hypotheses for understanding the new regulatory state in Britain It can integrate the particular British experience into wider accounts of change; for instance, into an account of the wider crisis of the Keynesian welfare state It can integrate the. .. policies—addressing the task of remedying market failures rather than the more ambitious interventionism of the Keynesian era This new regulatory state thus renounces the command modes of the Keynesian era These images, then, identify the regulatory state with withdrawal from utopian interventionism, with the construction of regulatory institutions to fit the new tasks of steering, and with the renunciation of command... Regulating and Colonizing Public Worlds Hyper-Innovation and Hyper-Politicization Reregulating the Metropolitan Machine Reregulating the Inspectorates Reregulating Quasi-Government The Colonization of New Regulatory Spheres Synoptic Legibility in the New Regulatory State 124 124 125 131 138 146 153 7 From Stagnation to Fiasco: the Age of the Regulatory State 155 The Teleology of the Regulatory State The Age... policy actors and by those who analyse policy I then show the links between this regulation narrative and the rise of ‘risk’ as a policy narrative, examining how far new vocabularies of risk can illuminate the rise of regulation The final substantive part of the chapter involves moving from the analytical to the concrete: I show the connections between the regulatory state and the British state, and sketch... moves beyond the prescription, which dominates this early work, to offer a historically informed account of the rise of a new kind of smart state The modern regulatory state is pictured as the latest in the historical evolution of the state system: from the Westphalian State inaugurated in 1648, to the Keynesian State, which lasted from the early 1930s to the 1980s, to the Regulatory State, which is... about the American regulatory state: it 18 BRITISH REGULATORY STATE is how to legitimize these institutions and the regulatory policies they pursue Majoritarian democracy, according to Majone, is not suited to the task His argument is, in part, functional (the world of expert regulations is necessarily separate from the world of majoritarian democracy) and, in part, to do with the kind of state the EU... on The destruction of the Heath experiment in command economics, mostly at the hands of the miners in 1973–4, caused the greatest constitutional crisis since the General Strike It destroyed Mr Heath’s Premiership and Leadership of the Party, and in the longer run destroyed the kind of Conservatism that he stood for It led directly to the accession of Mrs Thatcher to the party leadership and then the . Images of the Regulatory State 12 Governance and the Regulatory State 12 The Regulatory State as an American State 13 The Regulatory State as a European Madisonian State 17 The Regulatory State as. Regulatory State as a Smart State 21 The Regulatory State as a Risk State 26 The British State as a Regulatory State 31 Crisis, Club Rule, and the British Regulatory State 36 3. Creating Club Regulation. illuminate the rise of regu- lation. The final substantive part of the chapter involves moving from the analytical to the concrete: I show the connections between the regulatory state and the British state,