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598 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2005)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0598 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE

The Making
of a New
Regulatory
Order
By
DAVID LEVI-FAUR and
JACINT JORDANA

6

Far from living in an age of deregulation, we live
in the golden age of regulation.
-Jacobs (2000)
While the conventional wisdom holds that
we live in a neoliberal era and under neo-
liberal hegemony, the reality is significantly dif-
ferent and much more complex. In recent dec-
ades, regulatory reforms have spread around the
globe, accompanied by new institutions, tech-
nologies, and instruments of regulation that
have had an enormous impact on the social and
economic fabric. The era of neoliberalism is also
the golden era of regulation, and while
neoliberalism and regulation often move in tan-
dem, there is no clear-cut evidence as to which
of the two leads the way. Both proponents and
opponents of the ideology of neoliberalism
expected it to result in less regulation and freer
markets.
Alas, the current order is anything but free of
regulation. For every regulation that in the past
quarter of a century has been removed from the
books, many new ones have been added. Dereg-
David Levi-Faur is a senior research felow at RegNet,
the Research School of the Social Science , Australian
National University, and a senior lectwurr (on leave) at
the University o>f Haifa. His professional interests in-
clude comparative politics, comparative political econ-
omy, and comparative public policy. He is currently
studying the rise of regulatory capitalism and has pub-
lished an edited volume (with Jacint Jordana), The Poli-
tics of Regulation (Edward Elgar, 2004). He is also the
guest editor of a special issue of Governance (forthcom-
ing 2006) on varieties of regulatory capitalism.
Jacint Jordana is an associate professor of political sci-
ence at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona,
Spain). His nain research a-a is the analysis of public
policies, with special emphasis on telecommunication
policies and regulatory policy. He is editor of the book
Governing Telecommunications and Information Soci-
ety in Europe (Edward Elgar, 2002) and, with David
Levi-Faur The Politics of Regulation (Edward Elgar,
2004). He also has been working on Latin American
comparative political economy, focusing on the role of
institutions for public policy making.
DOIJ: 10.1177/0002716204272612
ANNALS, AAPSS, 598, March 2005

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