Colin Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0486-8670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 349 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Indigenous Epistemologies
This discussion of Indigenous epistemologies summarizes some major themes -- epistemology and ontology, reciprocity as paradigm, society/nature dualism, animacy and language, knowing through stories, and decolonial politics -- that have currency in anthropology and across disciplines and fields. In particular, these themes underlie anthropological understandings of animistic worlds and knowledge systems, inspired fundamentally by the relational p…
Co‐Design of a Registry‐Based Tailored Follow‐up Service Intervention for People Living With Stroke: A Multiple Method Consensus Approach
BACKGROUND: Often people experience ongoing health challenges after stroke. The Australian Stroke Clinical Registry collects patient-reported outcomes after stroke. Many patients report challenges that are potentially addressable through additional support. AIMS: To co-design a registry-based, hospital-initiated, follow-up service for people who report major health-related challenges between 90 and 180 days after their stroke. METHODS: Iterative,…
Gender Gaps in Immigrants' Political Participation within and across Borders: Political Socialization or Opportunity Structures
This study assesses gender gaps in political participation within the host country and in transnational activities among immigrants, using a survey of more than 1000 immigrants in Quebec (Canada). More specifically, the study examines whether premigration experiences with gender equality shapes immigrants’ political participation. We find no evidence of gender gaps in political activities in the host country, but observe a gender gap in transnati…
Are Personality Traits Related to Politicians’ Positions on Immigration
The political debates spurred on by rapidly growing immigrant populations in many countries have resulted in an extensive, and growing, scholarship that seeks to explain citizens' attitudes toward immigration. Yet, there is surprisingly an absence of research regarding the factors that correlate with political elites' positions on immigration. This study therefore seeks to address an important scholarly gap by exploring the factors that help to e…
Priming the state: Continuity and junctures in the foundation of the Irish administration
A principle of continuity was baked into the political and legal instruments underpinning the embryonic Irish state. At the same time, a process of evolutionary change we call 'administrative greening' was initiated, which we examine here and in Greening the Irish State: Early Legislative and Administrative Dynamics. Irish Political Studies, XXX, XXX). In this first article, we highlight the extent to which these dynamics shaped the formative or …
Greening the Irish State: Early Legislative and Administrative Dynamics
The establishment of Saorstt ireann (the Irish Free State) in 1922 did not herald a fundamental overhaul of the administrative machinery inherited from Whitehall and Dublin Castle. Path dependent continuities in legislation and executive orders underpinned the new dispensation. At the same time, a process of evolutionary change, which we call 'administrative greening', was underway. Drawing on data in the Irish State Administration Database (ISAD…
Le « mystère de Québec » et son environnement médiatique
La propension de l’électorat de la région de Québec à se situer davantage à la droite du spectre politique, comparativement aux autres régions de la province, a été tellement soulignée que les formules « l’énigme de Québec » ou le « mystère de Québec » sont devenues consacrées. À l’aide d’un sondage effectué auprès de 73 experts des médias des régions de Québec et de Montréal, nous testons l’hypothèse d’un environnement médiatique de la région de…
The Politics of Regulation in Ireland
There has been a global trend towards greater dependence on regulation since the 1980s. This chapter examines how this has played out in Ireland. Ireland offers an interesting case study of regulatory governance because of the long-standing practice of delegating key welfare functions to NGOs, which established the early Irish state as regulator as well as direct service provider. Subsequently, changes in state structures align to wider global tr…
What Kind of Ireland?
Modern Ireland is a relatively wealthy and politically stable democracy, but it bears the deep marks of its route to this point. This introductory chapter draws together some key themes that run through this volume and profiles the core contributions of each of its chapters. The overall story is one of contradictory influences. The political institutions of the state, notwithstanding much innovation over time, retain a bias toward a remarkably st…
Regulatory discretion: Structuring power in the era of regulatory capitalism
Discretion gives decision makers choices as to how resources are allocated, or how other aspects of state largesse or coercion are deployed. Discretionary state power challenges aspects of the rule of law, first by transferring decisions from legislators to departments, agencies and street-level bureaucrats and secondly by risking the uniform application of key fairness and equality norms. Concerns to find alternative and decentred forms of regul…
Managing higher education for a changing regulatory environment
Purpose This article addresses the relationship of universities to their changing regulatory environments internationally. Design/methodology/approach This article updates analysis published in 2004 exploring the contrasting modes of, and key trends in, regulation of higher education across eight OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) states. The article offers a wider analysis of the changing patterns of regulation rooted …
Production and Exchange among Wemindji Cree: Egalitarian Ideology and Economic Base
Despite a series of changes in productive forces and in relations with capitalist society, the Cree of northern Quebec have maintained a domestic mode of production. Until quite recently, reciprocity was seriously entertained as the idiom of relations even with the white man. This paper examines, for Wemindji Cree hunters, the effect of increased consumer affluence on subsistence production, sharing, and potential stratification between subsisten…
Some Thoughts on Regional Developement and the Canadian North in the Work of Richard F. Salisbury
Some Thoughts on Regional Developement and the Canadian North in the Work of Richard F. Salisbury. Un article de la revue Culture (Volume 10, numéro 1, 1990, p. 3-115) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Managing and Regulating Commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
The management of commitments by higher education institutions to equality, diversity and inclusion both for employees and students presents significant challenges. The implementation of measures to comply with legislative equality requirements, the indicators of commitment to formal equality, do not deliver anything like equality of outcome. This creates the challenge as to how universities may articulate and act on commitments which go beyond f…
Les catégories ethniques et les modes de relations entre nations dans les traditions orales crie et innue
En nous basant sur les études de Sylvie Vincent sur les récits des Innus laurentiens qui relatent les premiers contacts avec les Européens, nous les avons comparés avec ceux de leurs voisins cris de la Baie-James. Cette comparaison vient confirmer que Innus et Cris de la péninsule du Québec-Labrador partagent une même logique, selon laquelle sont enregistrées et évaluées les relations avec les nouveaux venus. Elle permet d’assister à la formation…
Is There a Distinct Quebec Media Subsystem in Canada? Evidence of Ideological and Political Orientations among Canadian News Media Organizations
In their much-quoted typology of Western media systems, Hallin and Mancini (2004) associate Canada's media system with what they call the “Liberal model,” given its strong professionalization and limited politicization. They also hypothesize the existence of a more professional and more politicized media subsystem in Quebec. This article tests their hypothesis with data from a 2018 survey of 209 experts across Canada. The findings do not support …
Introduction: Des castors à la terre : Construire sur les débats passés pour défaire l'enchevêtrement contemporain des territoires de chasse familiaux des Algonquiens
En 1986, Anthropologica publiait un numéro spécial sur les territoires de chasse familiaux Algonquiens comportant diverses recherches ethnographiques qui renversaient, ancraient ou recadraient les travaux antérieurs portant sur les origines ou décrivant le communisme primitif des systèmes de propriété foncière Algonquiens. Le numéro présentait des recherches développées dans le cadre de la montée de revendications politiques et juridiques Autocht…
Luttes autochtones pour le territoire: Amérique latine et Québec », Université du Québec à Montréal, 12-13 octobre 2017
« Luttes autochtones pour le territoire : Amérique latine et Québec », Université du Québec à Montréal, 12-13 octobre 2017. An article from journal Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (Les petites bêtes dans l’histoire et les cosmologies amérindiennes), on Érudit
Threat and Prejudice against Syrian Refugees in Canada: Assessing the Moderating Effects of Multiculturalism, Interculturalism, and Assimilation
The Inclusion of Culture in Canadian Social Psychology Textbooks: A Content Analysis of Introductory Texts
Cultural diversity features prominently in Canadian social and political life. Canadian social psychologists, for their part, have led a rich tradition of research on intercultural relations. We identified the undergraduate social psychology textbooks used to introduce students of psychology in Canada to the field and examined the extent that culture is incorporated into the teaching of introductory social psychology. Through a content analysis o…
Les Autochtones et le Québec: Des premiers contacts au Plan Nord
Des premiers contacts jusqu'au récent Plan Nord, la rencontre entre les Autochtones et les descendants des Européens est au cœur du développement économique, politique et culturel du territoire aujourd'hui nommé Québec. Cet héritage commun, avec ses contradictions et ses tensions, nous est parfois rappelé dans des circonstances difficiles, comme celles de la Crise d'Oka, devenue un symbole des relations tendues entre Blancs et Amérindiens. Plus r…
‘When familiar meanings dissolve…’: Essays in French Studies in Memory of Malcolm Bowie ‘When familiar meanings dissolve…’: Essays in French Studies in Memory of Malcolm Bowie . Edited by N aomi S ega…
This collection of essays in memory of Malcolm Bowie is poignantly, recurrently, woven with his traces, from Michael Worton's handsome opening tribute to Tim Mathews's closing and moving reflections on the assimilation of his loss. By way of prolegomenon, Marina Warner revisits acoustic eventfulness and the wresting of sense from meaning, of the preverbal from the verbal, in Mallarmé and Beckett. Michael Sheringham initiates Part II, ‘Poetry’, wi…
Street‐Level Tort Law: The Bureaucratic Justice of Liability Decision‐Making
Most legal scholarship on tort focuses primarily on judicial decisions, but this represents only a limited aspect of tortious liability. The vast majority of decisions concerning tortious liability are made by bureaucrats. Unavoidably then, there are two tiers of justice in tort law. This article focuses on the lower tier – bureaucratic decision‐making – arguing that the justice of bureaucratic decisions on tort should be considered on its own te…
Ordering Things: The Irish State Administration Database
New theoretical approaches to the state have posed challenges for the comparative analysis of the organizational features of states. The analysis of state bodies and state agencies has largely been confined to the sub-discipline of public administration, and has been resistant to the systematic classification that has made progress possible in other areas of comparative politics. This article argues that there is much to be gained by reconceptual…
Regulating in Global Regimes
An increased emphasis on global regulation is a response to the recognition of economic, social and cultural interdependence between the world’s nations and peoples. Policy problems as diverse as reckless behaviour by financial institutions, exploitation of sweat-shop labour in emerging economies, and the threat of climate change present collective action problems which cannot be resolved through the deployment of the state’s authority, capacity …
Accountability in the Regulatory State
Accountability has long been both a key theme and a key problem in constitutional scholarship. The centrality of the accountability debates in contemporary political and legal discourse is a product of the difficulty of balancing the autonomy given to those exercising public power with appropriate control. The traditional mechanisms of accountability to Parliament and to the courts are problematic because in a complex administrative state, charac…
Regulation of Government: Has it Increased, is it Increasing, Should it be Diminished
This article examines arms‐length ‘regulation’ of UK government – the public‐sector analogy to regulation of business firms — and assesses the precepts for public‐sector regulation embodied in the Blair Labour government’s official vision of public‐man‐agement reform, its Modernising Government White Paper of 1999. As a background to assessing the recipes for public‐sector regulation in Modernising Government, the article shows that such regulati…
Knowledge construction among the Cree hunters: Metaphors and Literal Understanding
La construction du savoir chez les chasseurs Crée : métaphores et compréhension littérale.Il y a longtemps que l'anthropologie insiste sur les aspects magiques et mythiques du savoir dans les sociétés non-occidentales, en les opposant à la rationalité réputée littérale et empirique de la science occidentale. Cette opposition survit dans la théorie contemporaine de la culture, quoique sous des formes indirectes. Cet article examine le savoir cynég…
The Rise of the British Regulatory State: Transcending the Privatization Debate
This article reviews three recent books that explore the social and political foundations of the regulatory changes in the governance of British society and economy. Beyond privatization, there is increasing delegation to autonomous agencies, formalization of relationships, and proliferation of new technologies of regulation in both public and private spheres. Sociolegal, public administration, and political economic perspectives can help explore…
Private Regulation of the Public Sector: A Neglected Facet of Contemporary Governance
The centrality of regulation among the tools deployed by governments is well established in the social science literature. Regulation of public sector bodies by non‐state organizations is an important but neglected aspect of contemporary governance arrangements. Some private regulators derive both authority and power from a legal mandate for their activities. Statutory powers are exercised by private regulators where they are delegated or contrac…
Spirit and practical knowledge in the person of the bear among Wemindji Cree hunters
The multi-vocality of the black bear as a categoryin Cree hunting entails a melding of practical-empiricalrationality with ethicaland 'spiritual' understandings. On one level of attention in the hunter's world, the bear functions as a postulate in indigenous scientific ecology. It does so by assimilating the consequences of both efficiency and restraint in hunting, as hunters strive to maintain good relationships with others in the world (summari…
Speaking Softly Without Big Sticks: Meta‐Regulation and Public Sector Audit
Australian government has undergone an “audit explosion” in the last twenty years. This article observes, first, that the constitutional function of public sector audit institutions (AIs) gives them a strong cultural commitment to the assessment of the regularity and legality of public expenditure. New functions connected with performance audit and evaluation of nonfinancial performance indicators are liable to be interpreted through the lens of …
Governance as Polity: An Institutional Approach to the Evolution of State Functions in Ireland
State institutions mediate the challenges of globalization for the domestic political community: the concerns of specialists in comparative politics and in public administration are increasingly converging round an interest in the nature and functioning of state institutions. This paper draws on preliminary findings from a time-series database of national-level political institutions in Ireland to track continuity and change in state functions th…
Bureaucratic Regulation and New Public Management in the United Kingdom: Mirror-Image Developments
The regulation of business by state agencies of various kinds is itself becoming big business for researchers in the United States of America and Europe, using analytical approaches drawn from political science, law, economics, sociology, socio-legal studies, and law and economics.' Selfregulation by business has also been the subject of much enquiry.2 But these two types of regulation do not complete the set. It is not only firms or independent …
Hunting Territories, Hunting Bosses and Communal Production among Coastal James Bay Cree
Colin Scott, Hunting Territories, Hunting Bosses and Communal Production among Coastal James Bay Cree, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 28, No. 1/2, À qui appartient le castor? Les régimes fonciers algonquins du nord remis en cause / Who Owns the Beaver? Northern Algonquian Land Tenure Reconsidered (1986), pp. 163-173
The News Media, Civil War, and Humanitarian Action
The civil wars - and the ensuing humanitarian crises - that have been prominent features of the first post-Cold War decade have revealed a close and active relationship among a triangle of institutions: the news media, governments, and humanitarian organisations. This three-way relationship has elicited considerable commentary, with the media often depicted as the decisive casual link between a given crisis and how governments and aid groups beha…
Mare Nullius: Indigenous Rights in Saltwater Environments
This article uses two case studies to illustrate the subjection of indigenous peoples' marine territories to a 'double jeopardy' of exclusion - jurisdictional and proprietary - through the legal and administrative practices of European 'settler' states in Australia and Canada. While the fiction of terra nullius as a legal rationale for refuting indigenous rights of property and governance has steadily eroded in recent decades, its counterpart mar…
Threat and Prejudice against Syrian Refugees in Canada: Assessing the Moderating Effects of Multiculturalism, Interculturalism, and Assimilation
Is There a Distinct Quebec Media Subsystem in Canada? Evidence of Ideological and Political Orientations among Canadian News Media Organizations
In their much-quoted typology of Western media systems, Hallin and Mancini (2004) associate Canada's media system with what they call the “Liberal model,” given its strong professionalization and limited politicization. They also hypothesize the existence of a more professional and more politicized media subsystem in Quebec. This article tests their hypothesis with data from a 2018 survey of 209 experts across Canada. The findings do not support …
Problematizing Legitimacy and Authority in Law & Policy
Law & Policy Quarterly first appeared in 1979 as a journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on the role of law in policy processes. Over the last thirty years changes in policy instruments and institutions, and in ways of thinking about them, have put pressure on accepted meanings of both terms “law” and “policy” and raised new challenges in terms both of methods for investigating the phenomena and theoretical tools for understanding them. A…
Introduction: From Beavers to Land: Building on Past Debates to Unpack the Contemporary Entanglements of Algonquian Family Hunting Territories
In 1986, Anthropologica published a special issue on Algonquian Family Hunting Territories (FHT) with diverse ethnographic research that overturned, grounded and reframed the earlier literature on the origins and the private-primitive communism property descriptions of Algonquian land tenure systems. The issue presented research developed with. for and in the emerging northern Indigenous political and legal struggles to continue to live on and go…
Regulatory Innovation and the Online Consumer
The explosion of usage of the Internet has caused considerable anxiety concerning the capacity of states to fulfil the functions they have developed in protecting consumers. Online business is booming in many sectors. Key examples, investigated in this article, are online investing, Internet gambling, and e‐shopping (sale of goods via the Internet). The article suggests that the high‐level discourse of regulatory reform and innovation has been fo…
Ordering Things: The Irish State Administration Database
New theoretical approaches to the state have posed challenges for the comparative analysis of the organizational features of states. The analysis of state bodies and state agencies has largely been confined to the sub-discipline of public administration, and has been resistant to the systematic classification that has made progress possible in other areas of comparative politics. This article argues that there is much to be gained by reconceptual…
The Conceptual and Constitutional Challenge of Transnational Private Regulation
Transnational private regulation (TPR) is a key aspect of contemporary governance. At first glance TPR regimes raise significant problems of legitimacy because of a degree of detachment from traditional government mechanisms. A variety of models have emerged engaging businesses, associations of firms, and NGOs, sometimes in hybrid form and often including governmental actors. Whilst the linkage to electoral politics is a central mechanism of legi…
The Crystallization of Regulatory Norms
This article investigates the processes through which regulatory norms generally, and in the context of transnational private regulation (TPR) in particular, become effective. We argue that institutionalization – the embedding of norms within some wider structures which impact upon their distribution, enforcement, and mode of transmission – is generally central to the processes through which regulatory norms are crystallized. We note that, within…
The Citizen's Charter Programme
Family Territories, Community Territories: Balancing Rights and Responsibilities through Time
This article focuses on the somewhat neglected phenomenon of band-level territoriality and its implications for understanding the much more extensively debated family hunting territory system. The organisational levels of the family and the band are part and parcel of a customary tenure system that has endured the proliferating entanglements of fur trade history and the modern industrial period through a dynamic balancing of the rights and intere…
Production and Exchange among Wemindji Cree: Egalitarian Ideology and Economic Base
Despite a series of changes in productive forces and in relations with capitalist society, the Cree of northern Quebec have maintained a domestic mode of production. Until quite recently, reciprocity was seriously entertained as the idiom of relations even with the white man. This paper examines, for Wemindji Cree hunters, the effect of increased consumer affluence on subsistence production, sharing, and potential stratification between subsisten…
Street‐Level Tort Law: The Bureaucratic Justice of Liability Decision‐Making
Most legal scholarship on tort focuses primarily on judicial decisions, but this represents only a limited aspect of tortious liability. The vast majority of decisions concerning tortious liability are made by bureaucrats. Unavoidably then, there are two tiers of justice in tort law. This article focuses on the lower tier – bureaucratic decision‐making – arguing that the justice of bureaucratic decisions on tort should be considered on its own te…
Gender Gaps in Immigrants' Political Participation within and across Borders: Political Socialization or Opportunity Structures
This study assesses gender gaps in political participation within the host country and in transnational activities among immigrants, using a survey of more than 1000 immigrants in Quebec (Canada). More specifically, the study examines whether premigration experiences with gender equality shapes immigrants’ political participation. We find no evidence of gender gaps in political activities in the host country, but observe a gender gap in transnati…
Introduction: Des castors à la terre : Construire sur les débats passés pour défaire l'enchevêtrement contemporain des territoires de chasse familiaux des Algonquiens
En 1986, Anthropologica publiait un numéro spécial sur les territoires de chasse familiaux Algonquiens comportant diverses recherches ethnographiques qui renversaient, ancraient ou recadraient les travaux antérieurs portant sur les origines ou décrivant le communisme primitif des systèmes de propriété foncière Algonquiens. Le numéro présentait des recherches développées dans le cadre de la montée de revendications politiques et juridiques Autocht…
Family Territories, Community Territories: Balancing Rights and Responsibilities through Time
This article focuses on the somewhat neglected phenomenon of band-level territoriality and its implications for understanding the much more extensively debated family hunting territory system. The organisational levels of the family and the band are part and parcel of a customary tenure system that has endured the proliferating entanglements of fur trade history and the modern industrial period through a dynamic balancing of the rights and intere…
Introduction: From Beavers to Land: Building on Past Debates to Unpack the Contemporary Entanglements of Algonquian Family Hunting Territories
In 1986, Anthropologica published a special issue on Algonquian Family Hunting Territories (FHT) with diverse ethnographic research that overturned, grounded and reframed the earlier literature on the origins and the private-primitive communism property descriptions of Algonquian land tenure systems. The issue presented research developed with. for and in the emerging northern Indigenous political and legal struggles to continue to live on and go…
The James Bay Project. A River Drowned by Water
Hunting Territories, Hunting Bosses and Communal Production among Coastal James Bay Cree
Colin Scott, Hunting Territories, Hunting Bosses and Communal Production among Coastal James Bay Cree, Anthropologica, New Series, Vol. 28, No. 1/2, À qui appartient le castor? Les régimes fonciers algonquins du nord remis en cause / Who Owns the Beaver? Northern Algonquian Land Tenure Reconsidered (1986), pp. 163-173
Knowledge construction among the Cree hunters: Metaphors and Literal Understanding
La construction du savoir chez les chasseurs Crée : métaphores et compréhension littérale.Il y a longtemps que l'anthropologie insiste sur les aspects magiques et mythiques du savoir dans les sociétés non-occidentales, en les opposant à la rationalité réputée littérale et empirique de la science occidentale. Cette opposition survit dans la théorie contemporaine de la culture, quoique sous des formes indirectes. Cet article examine le savoir cynég…
Continuity and Change in British Food Law
The Citizen's Charter Programme
Choice and the Legal Order: A Jurisprudence for Contemporary Politics
Bureaucratic Regulation and New Public Management in the United Kingdom: Mirror-Image Developments
The regulation of business by state agencies of various kinds is itself becoming big business for researchers in the United States of America and Europe, using analytical approaches drawn from political science, law, economics, sociology, socio-legal studies, and law and economics.' Selfregulation by business has also been the subject of much enquiry.2 But these two types of regulation do not complete the set. It is not only firms or independent …
The News Media, Civil War, and Humanitarian Action
The civil wars - and the ensuing humanitarian crises - that have been prominent features of the first post-Cold War decade have revealed a close and active relationship among a triangle of institutions: the news media, governments, and humanitarian organisations. This three-way relationship has elicited considerable commentary, with the media often depicted as the decisive casual link between a given crisis and how governments and aid groups beha…
La loi dans le processus de libéralisation des télécommunications. La « juridification » des relations réglementaires
Ce texte sur la « juridification » des relations réglementaires fait partie d'une recherche plus vaste qui entend problématiser le rôle de la loi dans le processus de libéralisation des télécommunications. La loi est, en effet, souvent perçue dans les processus de politique comme - et ce de façon unique - l'unique zone de l'existence ou l'on peut s'attendre à ce que les conséquences attendues se réalisent. Ce texte soutient que cette présence de …
Regulation Inside Government: Waste-Watchers, Quality Police, and Sleazebusters
Regulation Inside Government analyses the army of inspectors, auditors, grievance‐chasers, standard‐setters, and other bodies overseeing contemporary public organizations. On the basis of a pioneering two‐year inside study of British Government by a team of leading scholars, this book provides an original analytical perspective on regulation within government. Given the limitations of orthodox constitutional checks on executive government, the co…
Land and Sea Tenure at Erub, Torres Strait: Property, Sovereignty and the Adjudication of Cultural Continuity
Approaching property as social practice, and native title as a confluence of indigenous, ethnographic, and legal discourses, we address two themes: firstly, the ethnocentrism of the state's division of ‘property’ from ‘jurisdiction,’; applied to deny indigenous societies' practice of the latter; and secondly, the contradictions inherent in judicial evaluation of continuity and discontinuity in indigenous law and custom. We explore the relationshi…
Accountability in the Regulatory State
Accountability has long been both a key theme and a key problem in constitutional scholarship. The centrality of the accountability debates in contemporary political and legal discourse is a product of the difficulty of balancing the autonomy given to those exercising public power with appropriate control. The traditional mechanisms of accountability to Parliament and to the courts are problematic because in a complex administrative state, charac…
Regulation of Government: Has it Increased, is it Increasing, Should it be Diminished
This article examines arms‐length ‘regulation’ of UK government – the public‐sector analogy to regulation of business firms — and assesses the precepts for public‐sector regulation embodied in the Blair Labour government’s official vision of public‐man‐agement reform, its Modernising Government White Paper of 1999. As a background to assessing the recipes for public‐sector regulation in Modernising Government, the article shows that such regulati…
Mare Nullius: Indigenous Rights in Saltwater Environments
This article uses two case studies to illustrate the subjection of indigenous peoples' marine territories to a 'double jeopardy' of exclusion - jurisdictional and proprietary - through the legal and administrative practices of European 'settler' states in Australia and Canada. While the fiction of terra nullius as a legal rationale for refuting indigenous rights of property and governance has steadily eroded in recent decades, its counterpart mar…
Cambridge and the Torres Strait: Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition. Anita Herle , Sandra Rouse
Private Regulation of the Public Sector: A Neglected Facet of Contemporary Governance
The centrality of regulation among the tools deployed by governments is well established in the social science literature. Regulation of public sector bodies by non‐state organizations is an important but neglected aspect of contemporary governance arrangements. Some private regulators derive both authority and power from a legal mandate for their activities. Statutory powers are exercised by private regulators where they are delegated or contrac…
Speaking Softly Without Big Sticks: Meta‐Regulation and Public Sector Audit
Australian government has undergone an “audit explosion” in the last twenty years. This article observes, first, that the constitutional function of public sector audit institutions (AIs) gives them a strong cultural commitment to the assessment of the regularity and legality of public expenditure. New functions connected with performance audit and evaluation of nonfinancial performance indicators are liable to be interpreted through the lens of …
Controlling Modern Government: Variety, Commonality and Change
The Politics of Regulation: Institutions and Regulatory Reforms for the Age of Governance
This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulation. The authors call for the adoption of different and fresh perspectives to examine this area.
Regulation in the Age of Governance: The Rise of the Post-Regulatory State
Introduction : This chapter forms part of a larger project examining governance ‘beyond the regulatory state’. Governance has been defined in a variety of ways in both official and secondary literatures. In this chapter the ‘age of governance’ is conceived in terms of recognizing the dispersal of capacities and resources relevant to the exercise of power among a wide range of state, non-state and supranational actors. An analysis in which governa…
Frontières et territoires: Mode de tenure des terres des Cris de l’Est dans la région frontalière Québec/Ontario – I – Crise et effondrement
Cet article est le premier d’une étude en deux parties sur la tenure des terres chez les Cris de l’Est dans la région de la présente frontière Ontario/Québec. Cette première partie décrit le système algonquien de tenure de terres et se concentre sur les circonstances, survenues durant les deux premières décennies du vingtième siècle, qui ont rendu ce système dysfonctionnel : la compétition par les trappeurs non-autochtones rendue possible par le …
The Rise of the British Regulatory State: Transcending the Privatization Debate
This article reviews three recent books that explore the social and political foundations of the regulatory changes in the governance of British society and economy. Beyond privatization, there is increasing delegation to autonomous agencies, formalization of relationships, and proliferation of new technologies of regulation in both public and private spheres. Sociolegal, public administration, and political economic perspectives can help explore…
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