I need to find different descriptions of 'regulatory spectrums' based
on different disciplines and methodologies.  The usual is
'self-regulation' at one extreme and 'direct governmental regulation'
at the other extreme with variations in between, but I am looking for
theories and especially studies to attempt to describe the range of
regulation more fully.  Especially interested in legal definition and
then maybe economic - not really interested in medical or engineering
definitions of regulation.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 25 Jun 2004 08:48 PDT

Hello greggy-ga,

I have a lot of familiarity (more than I care to admit) with
environmental regulations, having worked in the field for several
decades, and even written a few regs of my own, both of the "command
and control" type, as well as some more innovative regulatory options.

I'm intrigued by your question, but not quite sure how to proceed. 
When questions ask for "studies" on a topic, it can mean several
things:

--you're looking for a bibliography on this topic...if so, I can
probably provide a well-targeted list of publications

--you want to see the studies themselves.  While there may be a few
such studies available on-line that I could directly link to, I
suspect most studies will be in publications that you would have to
access through a library.  In other words, I wouldn't be able to post
direct links to the studies.

--you want someone to write a study for you on this topic.


Please let me know where on the spectrum you question lies, and I'll
see what I can do to assist you.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by greggy-ga on 25 Jun 2004 18:45 PDT

Hi pafalafa,
I am looking for a targeted bibliography, probably with descriptions
of the key concepts, and links where available - I take your point
that not all or even most will be available online.

This is background to broader academic research and kind of a check to
ensure that I haven't missed anything (as well as an experiment with
GA).  So the bibliography route, maybe categorised by
discipline/methodology (eg legal - jurisprudence, legal -
administration, economic - Chicago, economic - Harvard, political
science, management science, etc (or whatever is appropriate)).

I should stress that I'm not so interested in the actual regulation so
much as the theory and framework underlying the policy decisions made
in WHICH regulatory mode to select.  My going-in position is that
policy-makers do not have a clear or consistently applied view of the
spectrum and are driven by political/economic ideology, which is okay,
but needs some kind of framework to structure the decision-making to
see the whole picture - I don't think that there is anything like this
out there.

Hope this clarifies more than confuses...