In a pioneering article and subsequent book, Brian Levy and Pablo Spiller thought through the implications of the new institutional economics for the theory and practice of regulatory reform. A key insight was that in order to attract investment and promote efficiency, reforms must be aimed at...

Recent changes in patterns of public service provision, sometimes associated with the 'regulatory state', have been said to have eroded citizenship and diminished accountability. This paper responds to these challenges by outlining a toolbox of four transparency mechanisms - information, choice,...

This article seeks to explain the development of telecommunications and electricity regulation in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. Across countries and sectors, there has been a degree of privatization and regulatory reform, although the extent of these changes has varied across countries and...

The first part of this article, based on a comparative analysis of recent policies on dangerous dogs among a set of Western European states, shows that small-scale events - like one dog-bite - can produce circumstances that confront policy-makers with a type of 'forced choice', given a...

This article considers the reform of telecommunications regulation in three Caribbean countries, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados, as they responded to changes in the international regulatory environment and specific domestic challenges. The three countries also adopted strategies to...

This article argues that the public management of risk faces inherent "wicked issue" problems which are further accentuated in the context of the contemporary regulatory state. It is suggested that in order to overcome these limitations and inevitable trade-offs, there needs to be a more...