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The core executive's approach to regulation
— from 'better regulation' to 'risk-tolerant deregulation' | | Author(s) | Anneliese Dodds |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Administration, vol 40, no 5, October 2006 |
| Pages | pp 526-542 |
| Source | http://www.blackwell-synergy.com |
| Keywords | Registration eg homes, nursing homes ; Labour ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Some underlying documentary, legislative and press sources concerning approaches to regulatory decision-making are used to examine change to the New Labour core executive's approach to regulation and its relationship with risk. The article claims that an initial commitment to better regulation has gradually been replaced by explicit support for deregulation. A reduction in the scope of regulation was also promoted by the Thatcher and Major governments. The New Labour core executive shares previous (Conservative) administrations' concern to include business in deregulatory decision-making. However, the article claims that there is one significant difference in the New Labour deregulatory approach: a new toleration of risk. Deregulation is, now, described as a corrective to regulators' over-reactions to perceived risks, which, it is claimed, are holding back economic and technological progress. However, this new approach excludes competing views concerning how risk should be regulated. In particular, it does not engage with widespread popular views that government should continue to protect against risk. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061115207 A |
| Classmark | Q3: VL3: TM2 |
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