Critical junctures in United Kingdom telecommunications policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7169882 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ewan Sutherland (0000-0001-5220-9605, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 102934 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telecommunications Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5961 • E-ISSN: 1879-3258 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.telpol.2025.102934 |
| OpenAlex | W4407969535 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
Telecommunications policy in the United Kingdom has had long periods of relatively minor changes, interspersed by short bursts of major changes. The electoral success of the Conservative Party in 1979 opened one of these critical junctures, enabling the creation of a regulatory state that persists today. The subsequent successful export of that regulatory governance model to the European Community (later Union) began a succession of additions and modifications. A smaller scale critical juncture came with the 2003 decision of a new regulator to review the rules for local access networks, leading to the separation of Openreach from BT, which persists today. A much grander critical juncture came with Brexit, severing connections with European Union legal, policy and regulatory processes, including those in telecommunications. Critical junctures can be a useful tool in analysing changes in telecommunications policy. • Application of a theoretical model of institutional change. • Analysis of examples from the United Kingdom. • Critical junctures are shown to be helpful in explaining the conditions necessary for major changes in regulatory systems
Business · Political science · Telecommunications · Computer Science · European Union Policy and Governance · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis
The Critical Juncture Concept’s Evolving Capacity to Explain Policy Change
The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses
Entrenching positions? The dynamics of Brexit negotiations mirrored in British, Irish, and EU executives’ speeches
The case of Brexit
British utility regulation
Neverland
Network Governance and Multi-level Delegation
Policy‐making in a system of multi‐level governance ‐ the Commission of the European Community and the restructuring of the telecommunications sector
Conceptualizing and theorizingEUregulatory networks
The Machinery of Government, 1979–97
The Brexit Omnishambles and the law of large solutions
Brexit and UK policy-making
Post-Brexit challenges to the UK machinery of government in an ‘Age of Fiasco
The Causal Logic of Critical Junctures
Remoulding the Critical Junctures Approach
The Importance of Ideas
The Study of Critical Junctures
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