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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Regulatory Delivery by MBE Graham Russell Professor Christopher Hodges
This book is unique and ground-breaking in addressing Regulatory Delivery. Regulatory Delivery can be defined as the issue of how regulations are received and applied by businesses and others whose behaviour they seek to control and the manner in which they are enforced. Whilst much attention has been paid to the ‘design’ of regulation as the focus for effective regulatory reform authors and policy makers have largely overlooked the importance of designing good regulatory ‘delivery’ mechanisms (enforcement) into the process of securing desired regulatory outcomes. Securing strategic regulatory outcomes relies on taking a ‘whole lifecycle approach’ to regulatory reform where regulation is used as a tool for government to achieve societal objectives by controlling not just the design of regulation but also its implementation. Driving effective change in regulatory practice requires therefore that the design of regulatory delivery is given equal attention alongside the design of the regulations themselves. Increasingly practitioners are recognising the vital connection between the design of the regulations themselves and the design of regulatory delivery initiatives (the implementation). This is something which has previously not only escaped academic scrutiny but largely the scrutiny of governments and policy makers alike.