Table of Contents

Contents: Preface 1. The Politics of Regulation in the Age of Governance Part I: Theories of Regulation for the Age of Governance 2. W(h)ither the Economic Theory of Regulation? What Economic Theory of Regulation? 3. The History of Regulation in the United Kingdom: Three Case Studies in Search of a Theory 4. Institutional Change in Regulatory Policies: Regulation Through Independent Agencies and the Three New Institutionalisms 5. Regulatory Co-operation: Transcending the Regulatory Competition Debate 6. Accountability and Transparency in Regulation: Critiques, Doctrines and Instruments 7. Regulation in the Age of Governance: The Rise of the Post-Regulatory State Part II: Comparative Perspectives on the Politics of Regulation 8. Comparative Research Designs in the Study of Regulation: How to Increase the Number of Cases without Compromising the Strengths of Case-Oriented Analysis 9. The Political Foundations of the European Regulatory State 10. Modes of Regulation in the Governance of the European Union: Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation 11. Divergent Convergence: Structures and Functions of National Regulatory Authorities in the Telecommunications Sector 12. Law in the Age of Governance: Regulation, Networks and Lawyers 13. Regulatory Designs, Institutional Constellations and the Study of Regulatory State Index

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Edited by Jacint Jordana, Associate Professor of Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain and David Levi-Faur, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel