are treated differently by welfare policy. We attribute the disparities to the countries' tax and subsidy policies. High …

maintenance of the welfare state, not as a dead-weight burden. It sets recent developments in the UK tax ratio in the context of … effects of both tax and spending. It then discusses tax and transfer policy since the change of governance in May 1997 in the … four Labour Budgets since July 1997 with those which would have resulted from simply indexing the April 1997 tax and social …

Really Responsive Regulation seeks to add to current theories of enforcement by stressing the case for regulators to be …

Principles-based regulation is high on the regulatory agenda in a number of regulatory domains, most particularly … financial regulation. Its supporters argue that it provides a flexible regulatory regime which can facilitate innovation; its … detractors argue that it is simply lax regulation. This article explores the political rhetoric surrounding principles …

We introduce the papers in this volume and put them into the context of the literature on land use regulation. We then … synthesise and draw some conclusions from existing research on land use regulation and interpret the evidence currently available … use regulation is, compared to regulation in other contexts, significantly neglected. We hope that this special issue …