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REGULATING GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS

The Cambridge Law Journal, 2006
It is widely accepted that the British intelligence dossier of September 2002 claiming that Iraq possessed “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD) which could be deployed “within 45 minutes” was critical to the British Government’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
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Pesticides and Government Regulations

1997
The marketing of pesticides for use, and the aerial application of pesticides are usually strictly controlled in developed countries. To illustrate this, we repeat here the “Part II: Purpose” section of the The New Zealand Resource Management Act 1991, which gives a sense of the direction taken by recent public policies in that country: (1) The ...
D. D. Kristmanson, J. J. C. Picot
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In Defense of Government Regulation

Journal of Economic Issues, 1986
(1986). In Defense of Government Regulation. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 165-177.
Barry L. Price, Roslyn Simowitz
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Regulation and Regulatory Governance

2011
This unique Handbook offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive, state-of-the-art reviews of the politics of regulation. It presents and discusses the core theories and concepts of regulation in response to the rise of the regulatory state and regulatory capitalism, and in the context of the ‘golden age of regulation’.
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Governance: Regulation FD

2012
One more time: Governance is leadership. One important characteristic of corporate leadership is the manner in which management discloses financial information. Emerging companies are correctly perceived as riskier than larger-cap stocks. The only way for your company to mitigate that perception is to demonstrate a fierce commitment to full disclosure.
John Lefebvre, Ralph A. Rieves
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Government Companies as Regulators

The Modern Law Review, 2019
AbstractIn 2016 the government established a new sectoral regulator, with power to grant and withdraw licences, set performance standards, and impose sanctions, not as a statutory authority but in the form of a company wholly owned by the Secretary of State: the Oil and Gas Authority.
Terence Daintith, Terence Daintith
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Regulators as Reflexive Governance Platforms

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, 2011
Network industries are now characterized by a regime of permanent innovation, while they continue to be fixed and sunk cost industries, due to the high level of investments in R&D and infrastructures. Players in these industries need to coordinate their investments; hence a threat of collusion.
Brousseau, Eric, Glachant, Jean-Michel
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Interactions with Government: Regulating the Regulators

2018
When there is no customer who is directly paying for a service, there are stakeholders who need to be managed. Often, these include the regulatory authorities. This chapter investigates the interactions between a gas and electricity utility and the regulatory authorities overseeing it and its rollout of so-called smart meters for gas and electricity ...
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The Taxpayer and Government Regulation

1978
Government regulation of business continues to be one of the fastest growing areas of the American economy. The bulk of the growing regulatory budget is devoted to newer areas of social regulation, such as job safety, energy and the environment, and consumer safety and health. Unlike the traditional regulating commissions, the agencies engaging in this
DeFina, Robert, Weidenbaum, Murray L
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The Costs of Government Regulation

1977
Overregulation of business causes extra costs to the consumer. For the public good, government needs to find sensible and moderate means of regulation in order for business to fulfill its basic economic function.
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