Controlling the Regulators

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. The Deregulation Initiative and Compliance Cost Assessment

   • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

   Pages 1-13

3. Theoretical Justifications for Compliance Cost Assessment

   • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

   Pages 14-32

4. Compliance Cost Assessment in Action

   • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

   Pages 33-54

5. Assessing Regulatory Compliance Costs in the EC

   • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

   Pages 55-70

6. The Directive on the Landfill of Waste: Two Forms of Appraisal

   • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

   Pages 71-86

7. Reviewing Environmental Protection Legislation

   • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

   Pages 87-103

8. (De)Regulating for Employee Consultation Rights

   • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

   Pages 104-118

9. Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights: The Relevance of Compliance Cost Assessment

   • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

   Pages 119-130

10. Valuing the Froth on a Pint of Beer

    • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

    Pages 131-144

11. Cost-benefit Analysis: An Alternative Approach

    • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

    Pages 145-162

12. Regulatory Impact Analysis in the US

    • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

    Pages 163-179

13. Conclusions

    • Julie Froud, Rebecca Boden, Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

    Pages 180-197

14. Back Matter

    Pages 198-216

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An authoritative study of attempts to deregulate and roll back the state in Britain from 1979-1997. Compliance cost assessment was the new tool used by the UK government to evaluate the likely impact of legislative proposals on business. The authors analyze the system and, using case studies, evaluate its performance as a technique of economic appraisal and as a way of controlling civil servants. Comparisons are made with the European Fiche d'impact and the American regulatory impact analysis. Given the considerable importance of CCA, and the dearth of literature on it, the book makes a significant contribution to the understanding of public policy-making.

• controlling
• deregulation
• regulation

'Business has long complained about the economic burden of rules and regulations but how can these costs be effectively recognised at the design stage of the regulatory process? Controlling the Regulators provides an unrivalled contribution to our understanding of attempts to cost and appraise regulatory initiatives. Working at the interface between law, accounting and economics, the authors demonstrate the complex politics of implementing Compliance Cost Assessment and offer some lessons for attempts at economic appraisal of regulatory action. This book is a unique source for academics and practitioners and provides important insights into the problems and paradox of deregulation.' - Michael Power, London School of Economics and Political Science

'Froud et al's research constitutes an important contribution to the legal literature on rule-making and regulation. Generally, this literature has so far devoted little attention to economic appraisal.' - Bettina Lange, Modern Law Review

• School of Accounting and Finance, University of Manchester, UK

  Julie Froud

• Middlesex University Business School, UK

  Rebecca Boden

• University of Manchester, UK

  Anthony Ogus, Peter Stubbs

JULIE FROUD has worked at the University of Manchester since 1988, first as Research Associate and since 1996, as a lecturer in Accounting and Finance. Her research interests include public sector management, policy evaluation and the role of accounting in business and public policy. She has published in a wide range of major social science journals including Public Administration Accounting, Organisations and Society, Economy and Society Journal of Agricultural Economics and Capital and Class.

REBECCA BODEN is Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Sheffield University Management School. Following a PhD in Public Administration, she spent five years as an Inspector of Taxes in the Inland Revenue. She was then a Lecturer at the University of Manchester's Department of Accounting and Finance. Since 1990 she has researched and published widely in the area of the use of Accounting and Accounting-based techniques in British government.

ANTHONY OGUS has been Professor of Law at the University of Manchester since 1987, having previously held appointments at the Universities of Leicester (1967-69), Oxford (1969-78) and Newcastle upon Tyne (1978-87). He has published books on Damages, Social Security and Regulation. His main research interest is the economic analysis of law.

PETER STUBBS is Research Fellow, Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne University, 1963-68. Successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor, Manchester University, since 1960. Dean of Economics Faculty 1985-87. Author of books on research and innovation; the Australian motor industry; shipping; transports economics; and company history. Also experience as consultant to industry in Britain and Australia.

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