Product Description: This collection improves our understanding of the problems associated to accountability in regulatory governance, focusing on audiences, controls and responsibilities in the politics of regulation and through a systematic exploration of the various mechanisms through which accountability in regulatory governanc...read more

Product Description: This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulation...read more

Product Description: As the papers in this issue of The Annals suggest, the current economic order is anything but free of regulation. Indeed, many policy changes seem to have expanded and extended regulation – in a global sense. The international arena is increasingly legalized, and new layer of regulatory controls is being created at still another level of policymaking as regulatory solutions adopted in North America and Europe have spread across continents...read more

Product Description: European and US scholars of communications, telecommunications, and politics undertook a pilgrimage of their own devise to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in April 2000 to analyze the recent transformations of the telecommunications regulatory regime in Europe, the market developments, and its implications for the development of a European Information Society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)