Regulatory capitalism: The dynamics of change beyond telecoms and electricity

[T]here are few projects more central to the social sciences than the study of regulation. (Braithwaite and Drahos 2000, 10) [Regulatory reform is ...] the single most important element in the current transformation of government-industry relations ... (Vogel 1996, 9) We can observe variation both between one state and another and - perhaps even more strikingly - between one domain of risk and another within a single state... Indeed, it often happens that there is a strong international exchange... within particular risk domains ... but very little cross-domain exchange within states. (Hood, Rothstein, and Baldwin 2001, 5, 6)