The British Regulatory State
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References (298)
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The New Regulatory State and the Transformation of Criminology
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Organizing For Europe: Whitehall, The British State And European Union
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Regulatory Competition in the Single Market
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The Origins of Modern English Society
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Privatization, public ownership and the regulation of natural monopoly
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The Legal Profession in England and Wales
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The medical profession in the Industrial Revolution
1984 • 222 citations
After the rights revolution: reconceiving the regulatory state
1991 • 220 citations
Corporate Power and ResponsibilityIssues in the Theory of Company Law
1995 • 218 citations
Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era
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Patterns of American Jurisprudence
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Valuing Nature? Economics, Ethics, and Environment
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Tensions of European governance: politicized bureaucracy and multiple accountability in the European Commission
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Performance or Compliance?
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The Painful Prescription: Rationing Hospital Care
1985 • 191 citations
Policy Disasters: Explaining the UK's Record
1995 • 189 citations
Shrinking the State: The Political Underpinnings of Privatization
1998 • 188 citations
Government Popularity and the Falklands War: A Reassessment
1987 • 186 citations
Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
1995 • 185 citations
Regulation of Government: Has it Increased, is it Increasing, Should it be Diminished?
2000 • 181 citations
The British cabinet system
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The Evolution of the Labour Party, 1910–1924
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The elimination of corrupt practices in British elections, 1868-1911
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Development of Communitarian Regulation in the Chemical Industry
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Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution
1957 • 166 citations
Laissez Faire and State Intervention in Nineteenth-Century Britain
1948 • 164 citations
The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government
1991 • 162 citations
Moving Beyond Command‐and‐Control: Reflexivity in the Regulation of Occupational Safety and Health and the Environment
1997 • 161 citations
Legal Theory and Common Law
1987 • 161 citations
Territory and power in the United Kingdom: an interpretation
1984 • 158 citations
Risk at a turning point?
1998 • 157 citations
Globalization and the changing architecture of the state: the regulatory state and the politics of negative co-ordination
2001 • 155 citations
Recapturing the Falklands: Models of Conservative Popularity, 1979–83
1990 • 151 citations
The state, the City and the Euromarkets
1999 • 150 citations
Public Sector Reform
2001 • 148 citations
The Power of Business in America: A Re-appraisal
1983 • 147 citations
EMU as Europeanization: Convergence, Diversity and Contingency
2000 • 146 citations
The Secondary Banking Crisis, 1973–75
1982 • 137 citations
Transforming British Government
2000 • 137 citations
Telecommunications regulation: culture, chaos and interdependence inside the regulatory process
2001 • 135 citations
The Priesthood of Industry
1998 • 134 citations
The Stock Exchange: Its History and Functions.
1964 • 134 citations
Professional Power and Social Welfare
1983 • 133 citations
British political finance 1830–1980
1982 • 133 citations
Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life
1996 • 132 citations
The unprincipled society: new demands and old politics
1988 • 131 citations
Imperial history and post‐colonial theory
1996 • 127 citations
II. The Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Government: A Reappraisal Reappraised
1960 • 124 citations
Central Audit Institutions and Performance Auditing: A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Strategies in the OECD
1997 • 124 citations
English Accountancy. 1800-1954. A Study in Social and Economic History.
1954 • 123 citations
The Unanticipated Consequences of Creating Independent Competition Agencies
2002 • 121 citations
Policy Networks and Advocacy Coalitions: Explaining Policy Change and Stability in UK Industrial Pollution Policy?
2000 • 119 citations
Lawyers and the Courts: A Sociological Study of the English Legal System, 1750-1965
1968 • 118 citations
Britain's economic performance
1981 • 115 citations
Profession and Monopoly: A Study of Medicine in the United States and Great Britain.
1976 • 115 citations
Sport, Prestige and International Relations
2002 • 114 citations
Managing the New Public Services
1996 • 113 citations
Company Law: Theory, Structure and Operation
1997 • 113 citations
BRITAIN AGAINST ITSELF?
1983 • 113 citations
Victorian Origins of the British Welfare State
1961 • 112 citations
FROM POLICY COMMUNITY TO ISSUE NETWORK: SALMONELLA IN EGGS AND THE NEW POLITICS OF FOOD
1991 • 109 citations
Institutions, regulation, and change: New regulatory agencies in the British privatised utilities
1998 • 108 citations
Culture and Consumerism: Citizenship, Public Service Broadcasting and the BBC’s Fair Trading Obligations
2001 • 107 citations
Globalization in one country? The peculiarities of the British
2000 • 107 citations
The dynamics of British health policy
1990 • 104 citations
British Environmental Policy and Europe
2005 • 102 citations
Who rules? The new politics of medical regulation
2001 • 100 citations
The appraisal of sustainability: Some problems and possible responses
1999 • 100 citations
The school teachers : the growth of the teaching profession in England and Wales from 1800 to the present day
1957 • 98 citations
Railways and the British Economy 1830–1914
1980 • 97 citations
Regulation in Perspective: Historical Essays
1982 • 96 citations
The New Business of Football
1999 • 96 citations
The Discount Houses in London
1976 • 96 citations
British universities and the state
1959 • 93 citations
Local Government in the United Kingdom
1994 • 90 citations
The New Politics of British Trade Unionism
1992 • 90 citations
SOME SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF STRICT LIABILITY AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF FACTORY LEGISLATION
1970 • 89 citations
Financial Services, Globalization and Domestic Policy Change
1996 • 87 citations
Agricultural policies in Mainland Tanzania
1977 • 86 citations
The state and the profession: the politics of the double bed.
1990 • 85 citations
Liberalism at Work: The Rise and Fall of OSHA
1988 • 81 citations
The politics of agricultural support in Britain: the development of the Agricultural Policy Community
1991 • 77 citations
British General Election Manifestos 1900–1974
1975 • 77 citations
Government and the Enterprise Since 1900
1994 • 77 citations
Professional Competition and Professional Power
1996 • 76 citations
Globalization and national capitalisms: theorizing convergence and differentiation
2000 • 76 citations
Theorising Utility Regulation
1999 • 74 citations
Science, politics and the pharmaceutical industry
1996 • 73 citations
European Modernity and beyond: The Trajectory of European Societies 1945-2000
1996 • 73 citations
Forging Accounting Principles in Five Countries
2016 • 72 citations
Hidden agendas : politics, law and disorder
1997 • 71 citations
The Trade Union Question in British Politics: Government and Unions Since 1945
1993 • 71 citations
The Retreat of the State: Deregulation and Privatisation in the UK and US.
1989 • 71 citations
RATIONALISM IN POLITICS, AND OTHER ESSAYS
1963 • 71 citations
Agriculture and Ecology in Africa
1959 • 70 citations
Accountability and Systems of Self‐Governance: The Case of the Maritime Industry
1997 • 70 citations
A New Future for Communications?
2002 • 70 citations
On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
1977 • 70 citations
Life in the jungle: My autobiography
2000 • 69 citations
REGULATORY REFORM IN BRITAIN: THE CHANGING FACE OF SELF‐REGULATION
1989 • 67 citations
Public Policy and Private Interests
1975 • 67 citations
The Higher Civil Service in Britain
1971 • 66 citations
Globalization and the Harmonization of Law
1999 • 66 citations
The new management of local government
1986 • 66 citations
Social Regulation and Explanations of Regulatory Failure
1984 • 65 citations
A Profession in Transition? — Lawyers, The Market and Significant Others
1997 • 64 citations
The institutional paradoxes of monetary orthodoxy: reflections on the political economy of central bank independence
2002 • 63 citations
Whose Utility?: The Social Impact of Public Utility Privatization and Regulation in Britain
1994 • 62 citations
Tony Blair: Prime Minister
2002 • 62 citations
Imperialism and Social Reform: English Social-Imperial Thought
1962 • 62 citations
Merchant Banking Dynasties in the English Class Structure: Ownership, Solidarity and Kinship in the City of London, 1850-1960
1984 • 62 citations
The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginning of Modern British Politics
1972 • 61 citations
Regulating for Competition: Government, Law, and the Pharmaceutical Industry in the United Kingdom and France
1990 • 61 citations
The Constitutional History of Modern Britain Since 1485
1967 • 59 citations
The movement towards the professionalization of medicine.
1990 • 58 citations
Public Service Law: Privatization's Unexpected Offspring
2000 • 57 citations
In the Public Interest: Competition Policy and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission
2000 • 56 citations
The Administration of Safety: The Enforcement Policy of the Early Factory Inspectorate, 1844–1864
1980 • 56 citations
Sport And British Politics Since 1960
2003 • 56 citations
Beyond Skeptical Relativism: Evaluating the Social Constructions of Expert Risk Assessments
2000 • 55 citations
Land of sport and glory: sport and British society, 1887-1910
1996 • 55 citations
Integrated pollution control and the evolving style and structure of environmental regulation in the UK
1993 • 55 citations
New Public Management and the Thatcher Healthcare Legacy: Enough of the Theory, What about the Implementation?
2002 • 55 citations
Can Humpty‐Dumpty be put together again? Imperial history in the 1980s
1984 • 53 citations
MANDELSON and the Making of New Labour
2000 • 52 citations
Developments in British Politics 3
1990 • 51 citations
Company Law and Capitalism
1974 • 51 citations
The Executive in the ConstitutionStructure, Autonomy, and Internal Control
1999 • 51 citations
The Tudor Revolution in Government: Administrative Changes in the Reign of Henry VIII
1954 • 51 citations
Information Technology in Government
1988 • 50 citations
The liberalization and reregulation of air transport
1998 • 50 citations
The Development of Restrictive Practices in the U.K. Monetary System
1973 • 50 citations
The Search for Pure Food: A Sociology of Legislation in Britain
1975 • 49 citations
Just in time: Inside the Thatcher revolution
2000 • 49 citations
An Inspector Calls? Regulation and Accountability in Three Public Services
1997 • 48 citations
THE BAGEHOT PROBLEM
1977 • 48 citations
The Independent Regulatory Commissions
1942 • 47 citations
Law as an Instrument of Economic Policy – Comparative and Critical Approaches
1988 • 47 citations
Keith Joseph
2001 • 47 citations
Inspectorates in British government: Law enforcement and standards of efficiency
1981 • 46 citations
A Lost Left: Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism
1988 • 46 citations
Performing 'Performance'-A Comedy in Five Acts
2000 • 45 citations
Statesmen in Disguise
1969 • 44 citations
The Internal and External Face of New Labour's Political Economy
2001 • 44 citations
Professional Men: The Rise of the Professional Classes in Nineteenth Century England
1967 • 44 citations
Reforming British Health and Safety Law: a framework for discussion
1992 • 43 citations
ADMINISTRATIVE REORGANIZATION AND POLICY CHANGE: THE CASE OF HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTORATE OF POLLUTION
1989 • 43 citations
Administering Europe?
1998 • 43 citations
In Search of the Regulatory State: Evidence From Scotland
2001 • 43 citations
Europeanization, Whitehall Culture and the Treasury as Institutional Veto Player: A Constructivist Approach to Economic and Monetary Union
2000 • 43 citations
Regulatory law: some lessons from the past
1992 • 42 citations
The Evolution of Regulatory Style in the Nineteenth Century British Factory Inspectorate
1983 • 42 citations
British Philosophy of Administration
1990 • 41 citations
Contracts and competition? A reflection on the nature and effects of recent legislation on modes of control in schools
1997 • 41 citations
Falling from a Tightrope: Doctors and Lawyers between the Market and the State
1993 • 41 citations
An alternative route of European integration: The community's railways policy
2000 • 40 citations
Can We Democratize Decisions on Risk and the Environment?
2001 • 39 citations
Sport, Politics and the Working Class
1990 • 38 citations
Technology Policy Meets the Public
1998 • 38 citations
Integrated Pollution Control: Change and Continuity in the UK Industrial Pollution Policy Network
1997 • 38 citations
The Early Factory Legislation: A Study in Legislative and Administrative Evolution
1970 • 35 citations
The Civil Service under the Conservatives, 1979-1997: Whitehall's political poodles?
1998 • 35 citations
The Electoral System in Britain, 1918-1951
1954 • 34 citations
Company Legitimacy in the New Millennium
1999 • 34 citations
Understanding the British Constitution
1996 • 33 citations
The State and the Farmer: British Agricultural Policies and Politics
1964 • 33 citations
Beyond Self‐Regulation: Towards A Critique of Self‐Regulation As A Control Strategy For Hazardous Activities*
1995 • 33 citations
Regulation in an Episodic Policy-Making Environment: The Water Industry in England and Wales
2001 • 32 citations
A National Health Service?
1995 • 32 citations
Public service reforms : issues of accountability and public law
1996 • 31 citations
Privatization : tactics and techniques
1988 • 31 citations
Civility and Traditionalism in English Political Culture
1971 • 31 citations
Regulation and deregulation : policy and practice in the utilities and financial services industries
1999 • 30 citations
Lombard Street
2011 • 30 citations
Non-union Rights of Involvement: The Case of Health and Safety at Work
1997 • 30 citations
The First Thatcher Government 1979-1983
2019 • 29 citations
Finding an Alternative to Bureaucratic Models of Organization in the Public Sector
2001 • 29 citations
The Impact of Two Decades of Reform of British Public Sector Industrial Relations
2001 • 26 citations
Capitalism in contention: business leaders and political economy in modern Britain
1998 • 26 citations
The Lost Legitimacy: Property, Business Power and the Constitution
2001 • 25 citations
The Amalgamation Movement in English Banking.
1926 • 25 citations
Delivering Better Transport? An Evaluation of the Ten-Year Plan for the Railway Industry
2002 • 25 citations
The contraction of England: National decline and the loss of empire
1982 • 24 citations
The General Medical Council and Professional Accountability
1989 • 24 citations
The City of London Volume I: A World of Its Own 1815-1890
1994 • 24 citations
Changing the Constitution
1915 • 23 citations
The Nemesis of Privatization: Railway Policy in Retrospect
2001 • 23 citations
A Reply to Clarke, Mishler and Whiteley
1990 • 23 citations
Administrative law and government action : the courts and alternative mechanisms of review
1994 • 23 citations
ECONOMICS‐LAW AND PLANNED BUSINESS: The Modern Corporation and Private Property
1934 • 22 citations
The Regulation of Food in Britain in the 1990s
1999 • 22 citations
POWER, STRATEGY AND GAMES: ECONOMIC REGULATION OF A PRIVATIZED UTILITY
1994 • 21 citations
Constitutions, Property and Regulation
1991 • 21 citations
Britain's educational reform: a comparison with Japan
1991 • 21 citations
auditing as the eternal present: organisational transformation in british higher education
2002 • 21 citations
Property rights and preservationist duties
1990 • 21 citations
The prison service: A framework of irresponsibility?
1996 • 19 citations
Steering the British State in the Information
2001 • 18 citations
Imperialism and Popular Culture
1991 • 17 citations
The State and the Steam-Boiler in Nineteenth-Century Britain
1980 • 17 citations
Constitutions and Political Economy: The Privatisation of Public Enterprises in France and Great Britain
1990 • 16 citations
I. The Royal Dockyards: The Earliest Visitations and Reform 1749–1778
1970 • 16 citations
Profile of the GMC: Discipline I: The hordes at the gates.
1989 • 16 citations
Managing the Professions: The Case of the Teachers
2001 • 16 citations
The Politics of Regulation
2001 • 16 citations
The British Tradition of Industrial Relations Research: The Contribution of W.E.J. (Lord) McCarthy
1998 • 15 citations
Report of the Commission on the Regulation of the Privatised Utilities
1996 • 15 citations
Legal Regulation and Communicative Couplings
1997 • 15 citations
Regulation and the Public Interest: Commercial Gambling and the National Lottery
1996 • 14 citations
Contemporary energy regime in Europe
2001 • 14 citations
Author/Author
1991 • 13 citations
Principles of Scientific Management: Selecting the Ideal Worker
2005 • 13 citations
A SOCIOLOGIST LOOKS AT THE GMC
1989 • 13 citations
Untitled
2001 • 12 citations
Peking shows its New African look
1971 • 12 citations
Regulation of Telecommunications: the Developing EU Regulatory Framework and its Impact on the United Kingdom
1997 • 11 citations
Case Study: The Case of British Gas
1996 • 11 citations
Salaried Defenders and the Access to Justice Act 1999
2000 • 10 citations
Taking stock?reflections on energy liberalisation
2000 • 7 citations