The Biennial Conference is the leading interdisciplinary conference on regulation and regulatory governance held in Europe, The 2018 edition of the Standing Group Biennial Conference will focus on regulation between effectiveness and legitimacy as an overarching theme. Conference highlights include the Standing Group Award for Regulatory Studies Development awarded to a senior scholar who made an outstanding contribution to the field, the Giandomenico Majone Prize for the best conference paper by a junior member of the profession, as well as round tables, keynote lectures, social activities and more.
Theme and Topics
The conference will be focused on regulation between effectiveness and legitimacy as an overarching theme. We welcome papers and panels addressing this and other topics, including (but not limited to):
Assessment of effectiveness and legitimacy of regulation
Reputational issues in regulation
Transparency and accountability of regulatory governance
Private regulation, co-regulation and self-regulation
Regulatory governance at local, sub-national, national, regional, and global levels
The role of state and non-state actors and their relations within and across levels
Regulatory actors, networks and institutions
Regulatory policymaking and the politics of regulation
Regulatory enforcement and compliance
Sector-specific regulatory regimes, including regulation of network industries
Risk regulation
Responsive regulation
The economics of regulation
Law and policy in regulatory governance
Regulation and the global South
Multi-level regulation: interactions and interdependences
Critical approaches to regulatory governance
Regulation in historical perspective
The sociology of regulators: biographies and trajectories
Ethnographic approaches to regulatory practice
The regulation of morality and gender issues