Christopher Hood, Henry Rothstein, and Robert Baldwin, 2001, Oxford University Press, 214 pages. With The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes, Professors Christopher Hood (University of Oxford), Rothstein (King’s College London) and Robert Baldwin (London School of Economics) were among the first regulatory scholars to systematically explore the evolution and growth of risk regulation … Continue reading Brief book review – The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes
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Brief book review – Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Ulrich Beck, 1992, Sage Publications, 260 pages. It is impossible to fully understand the debates surrounding risk-based regulation without reading Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. In it, Professor Ulrich Beck (1944-2015; University of Munich) explores what he has termed the ‘risk society’. The book was originally published in German in 1986, right in the … Continue reading Brief book review – Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Brief book review – Managing Regulation: Regulatory Analysis, Politics and Policy
Martin Lodge and Kai Wegrich, 2012, Palgrave Macmillan, 276 pages. In Managing Regulation: Regulatory Analysis, Politics and Policy, Professor Martin Lodge (London School of Economics) and Professor Kai Wegrich (Hertie School of Governance) introduce regulatory analysis as a multidisciplinary perspective to consider problems in regulation and systematically explore the different regulatory strategies to address them. … Continue reading Brief book review – Managing Regulation: Regulatory Analysis, Politics and Policy
Six months on the job
Time flies! It’s now a little over six months since I started as Professor and Chair in Regulatory Practice at the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington. In those months, we have worked towards laying the foundations for the Chair for the next years. This involved developing and fine-tuning a five-year research plan, trialling … Continue reading Six months on the job
Brief book review – Regulatory Crisis: Negotiating the Consequences of Risk, Disasters and Crises
Bridget M. Hutter and Sally M. Lloyd-Bostock, 2017, Cambridge University Press, 259 pages. In Regulatory Crisis: Negotiating the Consequences of Risk, Disasters and Crises, Professors Bridget Hutter and Sally Lloyd-Bostock (both London School of Economics) seek to understand when a disaster becomes a crisis for regulators. They provide in-depth case studies of five disasters that … Continue reading Brief book review – Regulatory Crisis: Negotiating the Consequences of Risk, Disasters and Crises
From the Regulatory Frontlines 