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Regulating Regulation — Who Guards the Guardian

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Contemporary Challenges in Regulating Global Crises

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This chapter brings an essential emphasis to the regulatory governance keystone introduced in Chapter 2 and expanded upon in Chapter 3— accountability.1 Despite the decentring debate2 which emerges in Chapter 4 and which anticipates at least in the medium term the diminution of the nation state, despite an age of re-emergent nationalism, the need for state endorsed accountability mechanisms cannot be avoided even where states are weak and disaggregated. And if the shadow of the nation state is faint, and the influence of multinational corporate jurisdiction is potent, how can accountability be sharpened beyond the nation state?

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    Mark Findlay (Professor of Law, Professor of Criminal Justice)

  2. University of Sydney, Australia

    Mark Findlay (Professor of Law, Professor of Criminal Justice)

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Findlay, M. (2013). Regulating Regulation — Who Guards the Guardian. In: Contemporary Challenges in Regulating Global Crises. International Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137009111_9

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