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649 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2013)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0649 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION Organizational Challenges to Regulatory Enforcement and Compliance: A New Common Sense about Regulation By SUSAN S. SILBEY At the end of the first decade of the twenty- first century, following an escalating series of global financial and economic crises, we hear renewed calls for government regulation as a necessary, if not entirely sufficient, safeguard against the excesses of exuberant capitalism. At the same time as some policy advocates urge increased regulation, opponents claim that it is not capitalism nor the market that is the cause of these crises; instead, they argue, government regulation not only dampens market efficien- cies and retards economic growth but encour- ages the predatory and fraudulent practices responsible for the recent Great Recession. For some observers, this contested account of twentieth-century government regulation indicates both the zenith and decline of the modern nation-state. After four centuries of what seemed like increasingly competent cen- tralized governments that were able to provide surer stability and security for their citizens,1 the rise and then fall of the regulatory state, perhaps more than any other indicator, signals institutional transformations, which reached their apex at the end of the last century. Active, expert-based government oversight and inter- vention, which in the United States had begun with the early-twentieth-century progressives, not only constrained industrial and financial hazards-such as industrial accidents and child labor-but also produced, by the 1970s, the largest equalization of social status in historic record. This included significant increases in longevity and literacy as well as general health and well-being. In reaction to the redistribution Susan S. Silbey is the Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at MIT She writes about the ways legal culture becomes embedded in routines of everyday life. Her current work looks at the limits of accountability in complex organizations, with special attention to scientists and laboratories. DOI: 10.1177/0002716213493066 ANNALS, AAPSS, 649, September 2013 6

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