The Future of the Regulatory State: Adaptation, Transformation or Demise?
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This short paper is meant to provide for some background ideas to motivate discussions
during our workshop. It therefore seeks to make a few short (and hopefully somewhat
provocative) points. The idea of the ‘regulatory state’ is one that has occupied social
scientists for at least two decades, given the growing interest in the changes of
statehood that went hand-in-hand (at least in Western Europe in the late 1980s) with
programmes of privatisation and liberalisation. These trends were summarised in
Majone’s diagnosis of the ‘rise of the regulatory state’ (Majone 1994, 1996, 1997), at the
EU-level (as the European Commission expanded its influence over content given
budgetary constraints) and at the national level.