This Handbook provides a clear and authoritative discussion of the major trends and issues in regulation over the last thirty years, together with an outline of prospective developments. It brings together contributions from leading scholars from a range of disciplines and countries.

• Part I: General Issues


• 1: Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, and Martin Lodge: Regulation: The Field and the Developing Agenda


• 2: Cento Veljanovski: Economic Approaches to Regulation


• 3: Mike Feintuck: Regulatory Rationales Beyond the Economic: In Search of the Public Interest


• 4: Karen Yeung: The Regulatory State


• Part II : Processes and Strategies


• 5: Cento Veljanovski: Strategic Use of Regulation


• 6: Colin Scott: Standard-Setting in Regulatory Regimes


• 7: Neil Gunningham: Enforcement and Compliance Strategies


• 8: Cary Coglianese and Evan Mendelson: Meta-Regulation and Self-Regulation


• 9: Tanina Rostain: Self-Regulatory Authority, Markets, and the Ideology of Professionalism


• Part III: Contested Issues


• 10: David Driesen: Alternatives to Regulation? Market Mechanisms and the Environment


• 11: Jon Stern: The Evaluation of Regulatory Agencies


• 12: Rob Baldwin: Better Regulation: the Search and the Struggle


• 13: Claudio Radaelli and Fabrizio de Francesco: Regulatory Impact Assessment


• 14: Julia Black: The Role of Risk in Regulatory Processes


• 15: Martin Lodge and Lindsay Stirton: Accountability in the Regulatory State


• 16: Antonio Estache and Liam Wren-Lewis: On the Theory and Evidence on Regulation of Network Industries in Developing Countries


• 17: Mathias Koenig-Archibugi: Global Regulation


• Part IV: Regulatory Domains


• 18: Niamh Moloney: Financial Services and Markets


• 19: Janice Hauge and David Sappington: Pricing in Network Industries


• 20: Peter Alexiadis and Martin Cave: Regulation and Competition Law in Telecommunications and Other Network Industries


• 21: Jürgen Feick and Raymund Werle: Regulation of Cyberspace


• 22: Adrian Towse and Patricia Danzon: The Regulation of the Pharmaceutical Industry


• 23: Catherine Mitchell and Bridget Woodman: Regulation and Sustainable Energy Systems


• 24: Martin Lodge and Christopher Hood: Regulation Inside Government: Retro-Theory Vindicated or Outdated?


• Part V: Conclusion


• 25: Robert Baldwin, Martin Cave, and Martin Lodge: Conclusion: The Future of Regulation

Robert Baldwin is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published extensively on regulation, has wide consultative experience in regulation and is the Director of the LSE Short Course on Regulation.
Martin Cave is Visiting Professor at Imperial College Business School. He was a member of the U.K. Competition Commission from 1996-2002. He has authored numerous works on economic regulation, and has very extensive experience of advising regulatory agencies, international institutions, and governments.
Martin Lodge is Reader in Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and teaching interests are in the comparative study of Executive Government and Regulation.