Taking responsive regulation transnational: Strategies for international organizations

Abbott, Kenneth W.; Snidal, Duncan

doi:10.1111/j.1748-5991.2012.01167.x

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“…This vast body of literature has provided important insights in unpacking the complexity of transnational governance fields variously conceptualized as “hybrid governance” (Ponte & Daugbjerg ), “ensemble regulation” (Perez ), “partnered governance” (Hale & Roger ), “regulatory ecosystems” (Meidinger ), “co‐regulation” (Sinclair ; Gunningham & Sinclair ; Gunningham ) and “responsive regulation” (Ayres & Braithwaite ; Abbott & Snidal ). There has also been growing attention paid to understanding how interests can be (and have been) made to align – in other words, whether and how public authority can (or should) work to bridge possible gaps between different groups of public, private, and civil society actors and/or work to shape established positions to new realities.…”

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Public orchestration, social networks, and transnational environmental governance: Lessons from the aviation industry

Henriksen

Ponte

2017

Regulation & Governance

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This article contributes to current debates on the potential and limitations of transnational environmental governance, addressing in particular the issue of how private and public regulation compete and/or reinforce each other – and with what results. One of the most influential approaches to emerge in recent years has been that of “orchestration.” But while recent discussions have focused on a narrow interpretation of orchestration as intermediation, we argue that there is analytical traction in studying orchestration as a combination of directive and facilitative tools. We also argue that a social network analytical perspective on orchestration can improve our understanding of how governments and international organizations can shape transnational environmental governance. Through a case study of aviation, we provide two contributions to these debates: first, we propose four analytical factors that facilitate the possible emergence of orchestration (issue visibility, interest alignment, issue scope, and regulatory fragmentation and uncertainty); and second, we argue that orchestrators are more likely to succeed when they employ two strategies: (i) they use a combination of directive and facilitative instruments, including the provision of feasible incentives for industry actors to change their behavior, backed up by regulation or a credible regulatory threat; and (ii) they are robustly embedded in, and involved in the formation of, the relevant transnational networks of actors and institutions that provide the infrastructure of governance. © 2017 JohnWiley & Sons Australia, Ltd

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Public orchestration, social networks, and transnational environmental governance: Lessons from the aviation industry

Henriksen

Ponte

2017

Regulation & Governance

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“…The latter can be viewed as our main contribution to scholarship studying the increasing regulatory significance of international bureaucracies (Trondal et al . ; Abbott & Snidal ; Blauberger & Rittberger ).…”

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“…With the rising regulatory influence of international bureaucracies and transnational regulatory systems (Trondal et al . ; Abbott & Snidal ; Blauberger & Rittberger ), we arguably need to learn more about the representativeness of staff embedded in such international regulatory structures (Gravier , ; Stevens ; Ban ; Halliday et al . ).…”

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Representative bureaucracy and seconded national government officials in the European Commission

Murdoch

Trondal

Geys

2015

Regulation & Governance

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With the rising sophistication of modern democracies, the policy problems facing public officials have likewise increased in complexity. Simultaneously, the technocratization of political life has made professionals and specialists (or 'experts') more paramount to processes of proposing, implementing and legitimizing public policy. Both tendencies are reflected in an increasing reliance on external experts to assist in the development and implementation of policy decisions. This development, we argue, raises two important questions: who are these external experts? And does it matter who they are? We empirically address these questions exploiting unique survey data on seconded national experts (SNEs) in the European Commission (N≈450). Our results highlight that SNEs do not appear closely representative (in a 'passive' sense) of the EUs' constituent population along a number of socio-demographic dimensions. This is important because the passive unrepresentativeness of experts introduced into the policy-making process has the potential to translate into an (active) under-representation of possibly relevant interests and opinions. However, the data suggests that passive (under)representation have modest effects on active representation.

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“…Such an approach takes us beyond state actors and draws in both market and community actors, and the range of mechanisms through which they may act, to achieve public interest objectives and more generalised wellbeing. These concerns are not limited to the industrialised countries (the traditional territory of the regulatory state), but apply equally and increasingly to the challenges arising from globalisation (Abbott and Snidal 2013) and the governance of developing countries (Braithwaite 2013;Braithwaite and Drahos 2000;Ford 2013), in each case demonstrating significant and often interrelated challenges for state capacity. …”

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The regulatory state and beyond

Scott¹

2017

Regulatory Theory

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In John Braithwaite's remarkable set of contributions to ideas about and the practice of regulation over four decades, the state is one of the central organising concepts. This is true for much thinking about regulation more generally, but for a variety of reasons. In Braithwaite's case, the focus on the state may lie with his original interests as a criminologist, where there is a strong consensus that the responsibility for regulating criminal behaviour not only lies with the state, but also provides a core rationale for the existence of the state as monopolist over legitimate use of coercive power. Just as that consensus has broken down with the privatisation of some aspects of prisons and policing systems in various countries, so the agreement around the centrality of the state in regulation has been challenged. In this chapter, I argue that while some, including myself, have seen in Braithwaite's early and highly significant research on the role of the state in regulation a tendency to neglect the wider community and market context, in fact, the seeds of a more broadly based analysis of regulatory capitalism may be found throughout Braithwaite's oeuvre. Policy and scholarly communities were less receptive to understanding the key role of community and market actors set out from an early stage in Braithwaite's work and more fully developed in his later work. In this chapter, I attempt to locate Braithwaite's major contributions to the theory and practice of the regulatory state and the broader concept of regulatory capitalism within the wider context of contemporary thinking about regulatory governance.

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Taking responsive regulation transnational: Strategies for international organizations

Abstract: Lindeque and an anonymous referee also offered valuable comments and suggestions.

Cited by 124 publications

References 28 publications

Public orchestration, social networks, and transnational environmental governance: Lessons from the aviation industry

Public orchestration, social networks, and transnational environmental governance: Lessons from the aviation industry

Representative bureaucracy and seconded national government officials in the European Commission

The regulatory state and beyond

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