Module POL3195 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3195: The Politics of Regulation: Risks and Regulatory Failures
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
While the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, this plan is indicative of some of the main topics to be covered by the module. More details will be given and the plan finalised in the module syllabus available on ELE prior to the start of the course.
What is Regulation?
The Regulatory State &the ‘Risk Society’
Theories of Regulation: Public Interest, Capture, Rational Choice
Regulatory Tools and Approaches
Regulatory Agencies
Regulating Risks
Risk Governance: Comparative Approaches
Regulatory Enforcement
Regulatory Failures and Unintended Consequences
Regulatory Competition: Races to the Top, Races to the Bottom
Regulatory Reform &Innovation
Crisis Management &Preparing for Future Crises
Regulatory Oversight
The Future of Regulation
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 44 | 256 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled learning and teaching | 44 | 22 weekly sessions each lasting 2 hours, each consisting of a mix of formal lecture, student-led seminar, collective discussion and presentations |
| Guided independent learning | 256 | A variety of private study tasks directed by the module leader, including: reading and preparation of assigned readings for seminars (roughly 130 hours); the research, preparation and completion of essays (roughly 50-60 hours/per essay); research and preparation of the presentation (roughly 10 hours). |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
A number of articles, reports or book chapters will be available for every topic on the module website. These will be supplemented with empirical materials from different government and non-government regulatory sources, as appropriate.
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
Baldwin, R, Cave, M and Lodge, M eds (2010) The Oxford Handbook of Regulation, Oxford: OUP
Carpenter, D (2013) eds. Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Group Interest Influence and How to Limit It, Cambridge University Press.
Carpenter, D (2010) Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA, Princeton University Press.
Hood, C and Rothstein H and Baldwin, R (2001) The Government of Risk: Understanding Risk Regulation Regimes, Oxford: OUP
Slovic, P (2000) The Perception of Risk. Routledge
Renn, O (2008) Risk Governance: Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World, Routledge.
Kelemen, R D, Vogel, D (2010) ‘Trading places: the role of the United States and the European Union in international environmental politics’ Comparative Political Studies 43: 427
Vogel, D (2003) ‘The hare and tortoise revisited’ British Journal of Political Science 33: 557-80
Ayres, I and Braithwaite, J (1992), Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate, Oxford: OUP
Moran, M (2013) The British Regulatory State, Oxford: OUP
Alasdair, R. (2011) The logic of discipline: global capitalism and the architecture of government, Oxford: OUP
Mayntz, R ed (2012) Crisis and Control: Institutional change in financial market regulation, University of Chicago Press
