The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South: Infrastructure and Development in Emerging Economies

ISBN-13: 9780199677160 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 350 str.

Navroz K. Dubash; Bronwen Morgan

Opis

The 1990s and 2000s have witnessed a spurt of energetic institution-building in the developing world, as regulatory agencies emerge to take over the role of the executive in key sectors. This rise of the regulatory state of the south is barely noticed both by scholars of regulation and of development, let alone adequately documented and theorized. Yet the consequences for the role of the state and modalities of governance in the south are substantial, as politically charged decisions are handed over to formally technocratic agencies, creating new arenas and forms of contestation over the gains and losses from development decisions. Moreover, this shift in the developing world comes at a time when the regulatory state in the north is under considerable stress from the global financial crisis. Understanding the regulatory state of the south, and particularly forms of accommodation to political pressures, could stimulate a broader conversation around the role of the regulatory state in both north and south.
This volume seeks to provoke such a discussion by empirically exploring the emergence of regulatory agencies of a range of developing countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The cases focus on telecommunications, electricity, and water: sectors that have often been at the frontlines of this transition.
The central question for the volume is: Are there distinctive features of the regulatory state of the South, shaped by the political-economic context of the global south in the last two decades? To assist in exploring this question, the volume includes brief commentaries on the case studies from a range of disciplines: development economics, law and regulation, development sociology, and comparative politics. Collectively, the volume seeks to shape the contours of a productive inter-disciplinary conversation on the emergence of a significant empirical phenomenon - the rise of regulatory agencies in the developing world - with implications both for the study of regulation and the study of development.

O autorze

Navroz K. Dubash is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. His works focuses on the governance of infrastructure sectors, with particular attention to energy, water, and climate change governance at sub-national, national, and international scales. He is a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and has served on India's Expert Committee on Low Carbon Strategies for Inclusive Growth as well as on Expert Groups on water and energy policy. He serves on the editorial boards of Global Environmental Politics, Climate Policy, Utilities Policy, Environmental Policy and Governance, and the Journal of Environment and Development, and holds PhD and MA degrees in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and an AB with honours from Princeton University. Bronwen Morgan joined UNSW Law School as a Professor in Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in October 2012, having taught at the University of Bristol, UK for seven years. Prior to Bristol, she taught at the University of Oxford in association with both St Hilda's College and Wadham College and remains an Associate Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Socio-legal Studies. She holds a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley as well as Honours degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney. She is a past Trustee of the US-based Law and Society Association, past Executive Member of the UK Socio-legal Studies Association, a co-editor of the Cambridge University Law in Context book series, and serves on the boards of a number of interdisciplinary journals including Economy and Society, Regulation and Governance, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, and International Journal of Law in Context.