Resumo Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) is an instrument that can provide information and
knowledge to decision makers to assess whether a given regulation is capable of achieving …

Learning is a cognitive and social dynamic through which diverse types of actors involved in
policy processes acquire, translate and disseminate new information and knowledge about …

Recently, it has been argued that the many works on policy learning constitute a stand-alone
basis for understanding policy processes. In this study, we evaluate this claim through a …

The European Union is often criticised for producing too many–sometimes badly written-
laws which interfere too much with the lives of citizens and business in areas better …

What causal mechanisms generate learning and what is their relationship with policy
instruments? It is almost obvious to observe that the type and success of policy learning is …

Benefit–cost analysis is an important part of regulatory decision-making, yet there are
questions as to how often and how well it is performed. Here we examine 28 Regulatory …

US regulatory agencies have been encouraged to consider the equity and distributional
impacts of regulations for decades. This paper examines the extent to which such analysis is …

Regulatory impact assessments frequently embed stakeholder consultations in their design.
Canada was one of the early adopters of such an approach and therefore has systematic …

Abstract The Water Framework Directive aims to achieve 'good status' for all water bodies in
the European Union. However, exemption clauses enable member states to delay protective …

Since the end of the 1990s, against the backdrop of increasing international competition,
growing regulatory density and demands on the output legitimacy of legislative action, there …