Description
Book Synopsis The dynamics of multi-level regulatory governance are ever-changing, not just in a North American context, but in a global one as well. Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules, clarifies the nature, causes, and dynamics of levels of regulatory governance in, or affecting, Canada. Edited by G. Bruce Doern and Robert Johnson, this collection makes conceptual and practical contributions to the debate over what kinds of principles and institutional approaches can resolve the problems of multi-level regulatory governance. This is the first text to provide an integrated discussion of key politico-institutional issues such as smart regulation, innovation, social and economic regulatory governance, accountability and transparency in Canada through a study of the multi-level regulatory interactions that the nation must function within.
Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules considers various sectors where rule-making spans all or most of the four levels of jurisdiction - international, federal, provincial,
Table of Contents
Preface Abbreviations * Multilevel Regulatory Governance: Concepts, Context, and Key Issues G. BRUCE DOERN and ROBERT JOHNSON Part One: Macro and Framework Regulatory Dimensions * Risks and Rewards: The Case for Accelerating Canada-U.S. Regulatory Cooperation MICHAEL HART * Regulatory Policy: The Potential for Common Federal-Provincial-Territorial-Policies on Regulation ROBERT JOHNSON * Federal 'Related Science Activities' and Multilevel Regulation G. BRUCE DOERN * Still between a Rock and a Hard Place: Local Government Autonomy and Regulation CHRISTOPHER STONEY * Balancing Acts: Multilevel Regulation of Canada's Voluntary Sector SUSAN D. PHILLIPS Part Two: Sectoral Regulatory Realms and Dynamics * Multilevel Regulatory Governance of Food Safety: A Work in Progress GRACE SKOGSTAD * Investment, Trade, and Growth: Multilevel Regulatory Regimes in Canada GEOFFREY HALE and CHRISTOPHER KUKUCHA * Forest-Sector Regulation and Communities KARINE LEVASSEUR and STEPHANIE PATERSON * Intergovernmental Regulation and Municipal Drinking Water CAREY HILL and KATHRYN HARRISON * Municipal Wastewater Effluent and Multilevel Regulatory Governance JEN SULKERS * The Alberta Oilpatch: Multilevel Regulation Transformed KEITH BROWNSEY * Multilevel Regulatory Governance in the Health Sector JOAN MURPHY * Regulating Risk: An Assessment of Canada's Multilevel Emergency Management Framework PHIL GRAHAM and CHRISTOPHER STONEY * Conclusions G. BRUCE DOERN and ROBERT JOHNSON Contributors
