Regulatory Quality in Europe: Concepts, Measures and Policy Processes

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Manchester University Press, Jul 15, 2007 - Law - 258 pages
The European Union and its member states are investing in ambitious programmes for 'better regulation' and targets of regulatory quality. This book lifts the veil of excessively optimistic propositions covering the whole better regulation agenda. It provides an innovative conceptual framework to handle the political complexity of regulatory governance. It approaches better regulation as an emerging public policy, with its own political context, actors, problems, rules of interaction, instruments, activities and impacts.
 

Contents

regulatory management 4 38 79 117 79 92 99103 1048 110
4
Tables boxes and figures
11
Appraising regulatory policy
13
Defining quality
28
Boxes
30
regulatory reform 14 7 9 1316 22 192 195
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simplification 1 2 5 18 23 29 31 36 USA 1 7 10 14 402 48 54 63
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a review of the literature
51
sustainable development 2 8 140 145 94
140
Better regulation indicators
165
Conclusion
183
Questionnaire measuring regulatory quality
197
System 1 Indicators for the quality of the process
205
Purpose interpretation and data collection of design
206
Purpose interpretation and data collection of quality
213
Purpose interpretation and data collection of consultation
219

Slovak Republic 63 Federal Register 58 66 77
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The results of the questionnaire
109
Figures
113
The state of play in the EU
129
System 2 Indicators for internal evaluation
228
System 3 Indicators for external evaluation
238
Index
254
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About the author (2007)

Fabrizio De Francesco is ESRC Research Fellow and doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter