Regulation: From Traditional to Cooperative

Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of White Collar Crime (edited by Shanna Van Slyke, Michael Benson, and Francis T. Cullen).

RegNet Research Paper No. 2015/91

21 Pages Posted: 29 Sep 2015 Last revised: 15 Oct 2015

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Neil Gunningham

School of Regulation & Global Governance (RegNet)

Date Written: 2015

Abstract

Within the sphere of economic and social regulation, two of the longest standing debates concern appropriate regulatory design and compliance and enforcement. Should regulators for example, prefer command and control or opt for a more cooperative approach, and in enforcement should they prefer punishment to persuasion? In short, what intervention strategy works best and why? Drawing principally from examples in the areas of occupational health and safety and environmental regulation, this paper examines both these debates, examining whether, to what extent and in what ways, policy has shifted from traditional to a cooperative approach, and with what consequences. In doing so it examines a range of influential theories including Responsive Regulation, Meta-Regulation and Management Based Regulation. It concludes by arguing for context based policy involving policy mixes rather than for “one size fits all” solutions.

Keywords: Economic and social regulation, risk regulation and policy, regulatory design

JEL Classification: K23, Q48

Suggested Citation

Gunningham, Neil, Regulation: From Traditional to Cooperative (2015). Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of White Collar Crime (edited by Shanna Van Slyke, Michael Benson, and Francis T. Cullen)., RegNet Research Paper No. 2015/91 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2666824

Neil Gunningham (Contact Author)

School of Regulation & Global Governance (RegNet) ( email )

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200
Australia

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