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1 Regul. & Governance 1 (2007)

handle is hein.journals/rgulangnce1 and id is 1 raw text is: Regulation & Governance (2007) 1, 1-7 EDITORS' INTRODUCTION Can regulation and governance make a difference? Regulation and governance have become popular phenomena for social scientists to study and for good reason. Although redistributive, distributive and developmental policies still abound, the expanding part of governance is regulation. Indeed, few projects are more central to the social sciences than the study of regulation and regulatory governance. Regulation and the significant issues raised by it have become central to the work of social scientists from many disciplines - political science, economics, law, sociology, psychology, anthropology, history and others. Furthermore, the strong inter- est of other professional and scholarly communities, such as physicians, nutritionists, biologists, ecologists, geologists, pharmacists and chemists, makes regulatory issues even more central to scientists and practitioners who are perplexed by the demands for better, fairer, more efficient, and more participatory systems of governance. We have established this journal to serve the needs of these varied professional and scholarly communities. We aim to provide a leading interdisciplinary platform for the study of regulation and its implications for governance. We seek to bridge and solidify discussions among a variety of relevant disciplines, serving the development of core theoretical and empirical insights in the study of regulation. In this editorial introduction, we introduce the new journal first by offering an avowedly brief history of how interest in regulation has grown across the social science disciplines in the course of the last century. We then argue that the most recent buildup of that wave of research interest has coincided with a shift in political studies from an in- terest in government to governance. Finally, we distinguish regulation from governance and set out broadly, yet clearly, the intellectual agenda and vision for Regulation & Governance. Regulation before governance From the outset, regulation as a subject of social science research grew out of a conver- gence of many streams from other fields. The Progressive Era in the USA spawned not only muck-raking expos6s of the need for new regulatory agencies, but also early schol- arly contributions that evaluated the new regulatory institutions and the political econo- my of the American regulatory state (Cushman 1941; Bernstein 1955; Mitnick 1980). The influence of important legal and political innovators, such as Louis D. Brandeis, President Woodrow Wilson's chief economic advisor and architect of the Federal Trade Commission, stretched from the Progressive Era through to the New Deal. The next chapter in regulatory studies opened in the 1960s and 1970s, when the USA and other developed nations experienced a burst of new forms of consumer, civil rights, health and safety, and environmental regulation, and with these changes came renewed interest in regulation (Wilson 1980; Bardach & Kagan 1982). More recently, there has been a move away from treating the USA as the main arena for regulatory studies, © 2007 The Authors Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd doi:10.1111/j.1748-5991.2007.00006.x

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