Meta-Regulation in Practice: Beyond Normative Views of Morality and Rationality (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Softcover

Simon, F.C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 036722870X ISBN 13: 9780367228705

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Meta-regulation presents itself as a progressive policy approach that can manage complexity and conflicting objectives better than traditional command and control regulation. It does this by ‘harnessing’ markets and enlisting a broad range of stakeholders to reach a more inclusive view of the public interest that a self-regulating business can then respond to.

Based on a seventeen year study of the Australian energy industry, and via the lens of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, Meta-Regulation in Practice argues that normative meta-regulatory theory relies on questionable assumptions of stakeholder morality and rationality. Meta-regulation in practice appears to be most challenged in a complex and contested environment; the very environment it is supposed to serve best.

Contending that scholarship must prioritise an understanding of communicative possibilities in practice, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers interested in subjects such as business regulation, systems theory and corporate social responsibility.

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About the Author

Dr F. C. Simon is a regulatory policy practitioner, having worked in both regulatory and regulated organisations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036722870X
• ISBN 13: 9780367228705
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256