Transcending the deregulation debate? Regulation, risk, and the enforcement of health and safety law in the UK

被引:51
作者
Tombs, Steve [1 ]
Whyte, David [2 ]
机构
[1] Liverpool John Moores Univ, Sch Humanities & Social Sci, Liverpool L3 5UX, Merseyside, England
[2] Univ Liverpool, Sch Sociol & Social Policy, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England
关键词
deregulation; neo-liberalism; occupational health and safety; responsive regulation; risk;
D O I
10.1111/j.1748-5991.2012.01164.x
中图分类号
D9 [法律]; DF [法律];
学科分类号
0301 ;
摘要
This paper considers the context for the development of the concept of responsive regulation, namely the transcending of the deregulation debate. It argues that claims regarding responsive regulation when allied to risk-based rationales for enforcement can, in fact, allow a deregulatory momentum to develop. This argument is grounded with reference to a case study of the regulation of workplace health and safety in the UK, with a particular focus upon the period 20002010. The paper casts doubt on the relevance and robustness of the concept of responsive regulation. In a context that might have been fertile ground for developing genuinely responsive regulatory policy, empirically we find the development of policies that are better described as regulatory degradation. Thus we argue in this paper that, whatever the intentions of its proponents, there is a logical affinity between responsive regulation, and effective de-regulation, and that it is this affinity that has provided a convenient political rationale for the emergence of a neo-liberal regulatory settlement in the UK.
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