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Tombs, Steve
(2016).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2016.1157854
Abstract
Better Regulation is a re-regulatory strategy that has unfolded in Britain (and, of course, beyond, through Europe and the OECD) across the past decade. This article beings by setting out some quantitative indicators of trends in national and local enforcement in three key areas of protective regulation – food hygiene and food safety, workers’ health and safety, and pollution control – from 2003/4 to 2012/13. It then goes on, in its main sections, to detail some of the ways Better Regulation under conditions of austerity has worked through at the level of local enforcement via a case study of four Merseyside Local Authorities; in so doing, it draws principally upon qualitative insights from a series of interviews, as well as data gleaned from a further series of Freedom of Information requests. In so doing, it considers how, on the ground, Better Regulation is made. It concludes that Better Regulation appears less about ‘better’ regulation, more about business-friendly regulation with diminishing law enforcement. There is good reason to suggest that regulatory functions will likely be increasingly re-cast as part of growth initiatives.
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- Item ORO ID
- 46157
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1470-1006
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Regulating Business? The Dynamics of Local Authority Enforcement RF-2011-173 The Leverhulme Trust - Keywords
- austerity; Better Regulation; enforcement; Local Authorities; food safety; occupational health and safety; pollution control; regulation
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Social Policy and Criminology
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Research Group
- Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC)
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- © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Depositing User
- Steve Tombs