The term 'regulatory state'entered the vocabulary of students of European Politics over 12
years ago with the publication, in West European Politics, of Giandomenico Majone's …

While the interventionist state was characterised by a high level of centralisation in
administration and policy making, the regulatory state relies on extensive delegation of …

The subject of this symposium is the new modes of governance that arose within the
European Union (EU) during the 1990s. These modes include benchmarking …

This article explains why regulation has come to the fore as an instrument in contemporary
policy‐making in many European states, as well as within the European Union (EU). On the …

Since the late 1970s European governments have been forced to change their traditional
modes of governance in response to such trends as increasing international competition …

Statutory regulation by independent agencies-sometimes called, for historical
reasons,'American-style regulation'—is rapidly becoming the most important mode of …

The notions of 'regulatory state'and 'Europeanisation'have become increasingly current in
recent years. This article analyses the extent to which the national regulatory state has been …

In recent years new modes of governance, not based on legislation and/or including private
actors in policy formulation, have increased in salience in European policy making. They …

This volume attempts to close a serious gap in the literature on comparative policy-making in
Europe. As every student of the subject knows, in America regulation has long been …

The thesis of the “rise of the regulatory state,” put forward most forcefully by Majone (1994,
1997) well over a decade ago, has proved to be more accurate than many skeptics thought …