Professor R Baldwin, NAB7.08

This is an optional paper for LSE LLM students, MSc Public Management and Governance, MPA Programme (all streams), MSc Law and Accounting, MSc Public Policy and Administration, MSc Public Policy and Administration (Research) and the LSE-PKU Double Degree in Public Administration and Government. Other MSc students may take the paper by arrangement. This paper is NOT available for students of the MSc Regulation programme.

This course is capped at 30 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.

The course provides an introduction to key topics in the study of regulation from with a comparative and generic perspective drawn from public administration, socio-legal studies and institutional economics.

Topics include: What is regulation and Why do it? What is Good Regulation? Regulatory Strategies. Explaining Regulation. Enforcing Regulation. Risk Regulation. Regulatory Standard Setting. Regulatory Competition. Regulation and Cost Benefit Analysis.

10 weekly two-hour seminars in a variable format: some lecture-discussions, some student-paper-led discussions, some debates and guest speakers where appropriate.

All students are expected to submit one non-assessed essay and to prepare one presentation on a topic assigned to them.

R Baldwin & M Cave, Understanding Regulation (1999); R Baldwin, C Hood & C Scott, Socio-Legal Reader on Regulation (OUP, 1998); A Ogus, Regulation (OUP, 1994); R Baldwin, Rules and Government (OUP, 1995); I Ayres & J Braithwaite, Responsive Regulation (OUP, 1992); L Hancher & M Moran, Capitalism, Culture and Regulation (OUP, 1989); M Derthick & P Quirk, The Politics of Deregulation (1985); M Bishop, J Kay & C Mayer, The Regulatory Challenge (OUP, 1995); B. Morgan and K. Yeung, An Introduction to Law and Regulation (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Consists of 100% exam in ST