Regulation & Governance 2012
Thursday - parallel sessions 2, 14.00 - 15.30
Seminar Room 1 - How states account for failure in Europe (HowSAFE): risk and the limits of governance
Chair: Henry Rothstein and David Demeritt
Papers:
- Kristian Krieger: Putting varieties of risk-based governance into institutional context?
- Henry Rothstein, O. Borraz and M. Huber: Risk and other 'psychopathologies' of governance: exploring national varieties of risk governance in Europe
- Michael Huber: Higher education and the emergence of risk-based regulation
- David Demeritt and S. Norbert: Forecasting hazards: risk, error, and blame in public weather service provision in the UK and France
Seminar Room 2 - 'Nudging' as an alternative to regulation and the market
Chair: Adam Burgess
Papers:
- Alberto Alemanno: Nudging smokers - testing choice architecture in tobacco control
- Adam Burgess: ‘Nudging’ healthy lifestyles: the UK experiments with the behavioural alternative to regulation and the market
- Jacopo Torriti: ‘Nudging’ energy users: regulatory measures to address the risk of peak electricity consumption
- Amandine Garde: Lifestyle determinants and risk regulation
- Luc Bovens: Alcohol, happiness and nudge
Seminar Room 3 - Bringing the state back in the analysis of regulation
Chair: Bruce Doern
Papers:
- Daniel Wincott: The regulatory state vs the welfare state?
- David Levi-Faur: The regulatory state against the welfare state? A critical analysis of the trade-off approach for institutional change
- Isik Ozel: From developmental to regulatory states
- Lars Niklasson: The regulatory state vs the developmental state: the case of the EU
Seminar Room 4 - Sanctions, liability and deterrence
Chair: Leone Niglia
Papers:
- Qi Zhou: Deterring illegal transactions: an economic perspective
- Joseph Spooner: The challenge to traditional personal insolvency law of the consumer credit society
- Shaun Elder: The sanctions pyramid: civil and criminal dimension interplay, financial regulatory context
- Laura Tilindyte: Regulatory enforcement and sanctions
Seminar Room 5 - Regulatory styles and regulatory states
Chair: Ahmed Badran
Papers:
- Ayelet Berman: Setting off the disregard of developing countries: what role for domestic adaptation?
- Jorge E. Culebro Moreno and Pablo Larranaga: Development of regulatory state in Mexico: from policy reform to failure
- Maite Salazar Lopez, Daniel Valenzuela Galarce, Manuel Tironi and Juan Felipe Espinosa Cristia: The construction of a regulatory style for transgenic crops in Chile
- Marcus Faro de Castro: Economic development and the legal foundations of regulation in Brazil
Seminar Room 6 - The politics of independent regulatory agencies
Chair: Esteban Arribas Reyes
Papers:
- Christoph Ossege: Explaining agency autonomy in the EU: is expertise the driving force?
- Andrea Bianculli, Ana G. Juanatey, Jacint Jordana: Building audiences, balancing strategies: the case of nuclear energy regulation in Spain
- Nicholas Dorn: Securities and insecurity: contested boundaries of private and public
Seminar Room 7 - Regulatory architectures and performance
Chair: Oliver James and Ayako Nakamura
Papers:
- John W. Raine: Risk-driven, service-oriented and all joined–up? The transformation of business regulation in English and Welsh local government
- Delia Rodrigo and Bruno Queiroz-Cunha: Regulatory governance in Brazil
- Oliver James and A. Nakamura: The effects of regulation on government performance
- Giuliano Castellano: Architectural framework and regulatory approaches: a governance perspective
- Tobias Jakobi: Regulating regulation? The OECD in transnational regulatory policy
Seminar Room 8 - Autonomy of regulatory agencies in dynamic and complex networks of relationships
Chair: Koen Verhoest and Jacint Jordana
Papers:
- Carolyn Jackson: New perspectives on agency independence: the interaction of regulatory context, stakeholder relationships and independence
- Mathias Johannessen: Multi-level administration: when global and European orders meet
- Caelesta Braun: The regulatory impact of a business crowd
