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What Should Every Public Servant Know About Regulation?

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We now live in an age of regulatory capitalism. As a consequence, regulation has become central to the work of contemporary public policy practitioners and public administrators. This chapter illuminates the fascinating intellectual journey taken over the past few decades as the notion of regulation has been rethought. It discusses how governments now operate within an expanding set of complex overlapping regulatory webs and how they compete for influence. It argues overall that the regulatory lens is a useful and productive approach to assist public governance, and it explores how taking a “regulatory perspective” on public policy matters can help practitioners move past old debates with deregulation and smaller government.

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    Graeme Hodge

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  1. Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Helen Sullivan

  2. Public Service Research Group, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Canberra, ACT, Australia

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  3. Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Hayley Henderson

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    Jeroen van der Heijden

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Hodge, G. (2021). What Should Every Public Servant Know About Regulation?. In: Sullivan, H., Dickinson, H., Henderson, H. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29980-4_1

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