The Brazilian Association of Regulatory Agencies: Integrating levels, consolidating identities in the regulatory state in the south

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea C. Bianculli
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Regulatory State ◽  
The South

Role of Regulatory Agencies in India’s Governance

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-441
Author(s):  
Prabhat Kumar Datta ◽  
Susanta Majumdar
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Arrangement ◽  
Functional Independence ◽  
Electricity Sector ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Regulatory State ◽  
Operational Effectiveness ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Independent Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Institutional Space

Independent regulatory agencies( IRAs) in a democratic system of government are designed to ensure and promote their independence and autonomous functioning. It is rooted in the concept of regulatory state. Developing countries like India stepped into this direction in the 1990s. In this article, an attempt has been made to analyse the working of IRAs with special reference to the electricity sector. The article demonstrates how the rollout of the agencies brought into light the difficulties of achieving functional independence and operational effectiveness. The discretionary authority is limited from within and without although the institutional space for regulatory policy is slowly but certainly becoming more open. The study seeks to identify some of the weaknesses of this new institutional arrangement that have become evident over the last few years.

South Arm Crossing Project: Navigating Through the Regulatory Environment and Stakeholder Communication in the Lower Fraser River Basin

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew T. MacKinnon ◽  
Chris Dane ◽  
Amy Hennessy
Keyword(s):  
Effective Communication ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Fraser River ◽  
The South ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Regulatory Policies ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Local Municipalities ◽  
Stakeholder Cooperation

HDD projects in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia face a myriad of regulatory policies and community and stakeholder interests due to concerns associated with land use, zoning requirements, and sensitive archaeological, agricultural and environmental areas. As a result, the Terasen Gas Incorporated (TGI) Fraser River South Arm Crossing Upgrade Project aka “the South Arm Crossing” was subject to review by several regulatory agencies and local municipalities and underscores the importance of effective communication and collaboration with regulators, the community, and stakeholders. This paper provides an overview of the regulatory authorizations and permitting requirements of the South Arm Crossing and identifies key stakeholders affected by the project. The South Arm Crossing reveals the importance of effective communication with regulatory agencies, land owners, businesses, and communities in the early stages of a project. Furthermore, agency and stakeholder cooperation can be enhanced with increased responsiveness to regulatory issues, and by incorporating stakeholder concerns into the project’s development. The lessons learned from the South Arm Crossing will enhance the pipeline community’s understanding of the federal and provincial regulations required to complete HDD projects in the Lower Mainland and provide strategies for developing communications and relationships with community members and stakeholders.

Cole Blease’s Pardoning Pen

2019 ◽  
pp. 147-169
Author(s):  
Amy Louise Wood
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
African American ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Prison Reform ◽  
Regulatory State ◽  
The South ◽  
State Bureaucracy ◽  
Executive Clemency ◽  
Modern Form

examines prison reform efforts in South Carolina under the governorship of Cole Blease in the 1910s to argue that Progressive-era prison reform played out in distinct ways in the South due to the region’s class and racial politics. Despite his fierce racism, Blease, in the name of reform, pardoned or paroled more criminals, many of them African American, than any previous governor. Yet, Blease’s use of executive clemency had much more to do with imposing an authoritarian and pre-modern form of power onto state bureaucracy than it did with progressive ideals about the promise of the regulatory state. His approach to prison reform illuminates larger tensions within southern progressivism

scholarly journals Disruption, regulatory theory and China: What surveillance and profiling can teach the modern regulator

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Brendan Walker-Munro
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Real World ◽  
Regulatory Agencies ◽  
Regulatory State ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Third ◽  
Regulatory Theories

Disruption poses a unique challenge for regulatory agencies, particularly those with a focus on criminal law. Yet regulatory scholarship focuses on and elevates the concepts of risk without addressing the actors and agents that populate the regulated environment. This article has three main aims. The first of these aims is to use disruption as a conceptual lens to critique the predominant regulatory theories and highlight some of their weaknesses. The second is, by reference to the principles set forth by Foucault and Deleuze, to identify some of the fundamental principles that could apply to a post-regulatory State to enable them to be more successful in the disrupted environment. The third is to examine the case of China as an empirical example of how some elements of that system have been employed in the real world. The article closes with some considerations of possible future areas of discussion.

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