| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Handbook on the Politics of Public Administration |
| Editors | Andreas Ladner, Fritz Sager |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. |
| Pages | 161-172 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781839109447 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Abstract
How much politics goes into the development, implementation, evaluation, and reform of regulation? This question has been at the forefront of regulatory scholarship for over five decades (Jordana and Levi-Faur 2004; Peltzman 1976; Stigler 1971; Wilson 1980). As in many areas of public administration, the responses to that question can be crudely summarized by: ● answers from ‘traditional’ Chicago School economics from the 1970s and 1980s: the politics of regulation characterized by an economic cost–benefit rationale and pursued by rational beneficiaries and opponents of regulation; ● answers from New Public Management (NPM) from the 1990s and early 2000s: the politics of regulation characterized by a need to shift the role of government to ‘steering’ rather than ‘rowing’, and to allow for more (free) market solutions to complex problems; and ● answers from (new public) governance scholarship from the late 2000s and 2010s: the politics of regulation characterized by a renewed interest in (and appreciation of) the role of government in addressing complex societal problems (such as climate change, global inequality, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution) and a more realistic (i.e., less rational) model of human behaviour.