Contemporary Challenges in Regulating Global Crises [Paperback]

Mark Findlay's treatment of regulatory sociability charts the anticipated and even inevitable transition to mutual interest which is the essence of taking communities from shared risk to shared fate. In the context of today's global crises, he explains that for the sake of sustainability, human diversity can bond in different ways to achieve fate.1. Hierarchy and Governance; of Shadows or Equivalence 2. Comparative Theories of Regulation 3. Regulatory Instruments, Strategies and Techniques  Sticks and Carrots 4. Contexts of Global Regulatory Challenge  Compulsion or Compliance? 5. Regulating Communication  New Media, Old Challenges 6. Regulating Human Integrity  Who Owns Your Body? 7. Regulating Finance and Economies  Profit and Beyond 8. Environmental Regulation  Liability or Responsibility 9. Regulating Regulation  who Guards the Guardian 10. Regulation and Governance  beyond Terror/Risk/Security 11. Conclusion: Regulatory Sociability and Regulatory Futures

'A mere half-century ago, regulation was almost exclusively the work of government employees attending to matters within defined jurisdictional boundaries. Today, regulatory processes are influenced significantly, and in some cases actually driven, by non-governmental actors whose endeavours transcend national frontiers. Professor Findlay's refreshing perspective on this new collaborative regulatory landscape deserves the attention of regulatory officials, the private sector, non-government regulatory activists, and scholars of regulation everywhere. His concept of regulatory sociability charts a course for governance in the 21st century.' - Peter Grabosky, Australian National University

'Mark Findlay employs a variety of techniques central to contemporary critical scholarship to move away from mainstream actor/agency-centered approaches to regulatory regimes. Instead, he focuses upon the systemic, or property-aspect, dimensions of regulatory breakdown that are manifest within lS8