Description
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the capacity of European governments and the EU institutions to deliver high quality regulation. Drawing on comprehensive research and an original survey, it shows how regulatory quality can be measured and appraised - thus appealing both to academics and to policy-makers involved in major regulatory reforms.
Trade Review'The whole 'better regulation movement' may amount to little unless effective ways are found to measure regulatory quality. This book, accordingly, will be essential and timely reading for policymakers as well as academics - it will offer particularly valuable and informed discussions of regulatory impact assessments and other new tools of regulatory governance.'
Robert Baldwin, Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
'This book is an incisive analysis of Better Regulation tools. The authors provide a comprehensive and thoughtful discussion of the institutional determinants of regulatory quality. It will bridge the debates among
academics and practitioners.'
Klaus Jacob, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universitaet Berlin
'The European Union has long since been depicted as a "regulatory polity", and the quality of the EU's regulatory output long derided and debated. In this useful and important book, Claudio Radaelli and Fabrizio De Francesco undertake a systematic analysis of the quality of EU regulation, using original indicators to assess whether Europe is indeed achieving "better regulation."
Mark A. Pollack, Temple University
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Appraising regulatory policy
2. Defining quality
3. How indicators perform: A review of the literature
4. Measuring the performance of better regulation policies: The cross-national experience
5. The results of the questionnaire
6. The state of play in the EU
7. Better regulation indicators
8. Conclusion
Appendix 1: Questionnaire measuring regulatory quality
Appendix 2: Set of indicators on the qualtiy of the process
Appendix 3: Set of indicators for internal evaluation
Appendix 4: Set of indicators for external evaluation
