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Ten Global Trends in Regulation: A Future Outlook

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The regulatory regimes that public servants are involved in today are largely shaped by five global trends in regulation that emerged in the last decades of the twentieth century. They include performance-based regulation, risk regulation, responsive regulation, smart regulation, and better regulation. This chapter provides introductions into and discussions of these trends. From there on, the chapter explores five key trends in regulation that have emerged since the start of the twenty-first century and that will likely be dominant in regulatory governance over the next decades to come. They include experimental regulation, behavioral insights informed regulation (“nudging”), regulatory intermediaries, regulatory orchestration, and regulatory stewardship.

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  1. School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Jeroen van der Heijden

  2. Faculty of Law, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Graeme Hodge

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van der Heijden, J., Hodge, G. (2021). Ten Global Trends in Regulation: A Future Outlook. In: Sullivan, H., Dickinson, H., Henderson, H. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29980-4_2

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