Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables and figures; Notes on contributors; Series editor's preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Regulation and its modes; Theories of regulation; The rise of statutory regulation in Europe; The European Commission as regulator; Regulatory legitimacy in the European context: the British Health and Safety Executive; Environmental regulation and administrative reform in Britain; The law and policy of competition in Germany; Independent administrative authorities in France and the case of the French Council for Competition
Summary
Explains how and why economic and social regulation at national/EU levels is rapidly replacing older forms of state intervention and also, to some extent, the redistributive policies of the welfare state. Includes case-studies
