Oecd Working Party on Regulatory Management and Reform Designing Independent and Accountable Regulatory Authorities for High Quality Regulation

1 Reducing the Risk of Policy Failure

FOREWORD The work of the Public Management Committee (PUMA) on regulatory reform-built over ten years-has provided substantive input and other extensive support to the development, organisation, and policy direction of the regulatory reform programmes in OECD Member countries. PUMA's emphasis is on regulatory quality-combining both good regulation where needed to protect health, safety, and the...

Oecd Reviews of Regulatory Reform Regulatory Reform in Switzerland Government Capacity to Assure High Quality Regulation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Oecd Reviews of Regulatory Reform Regulatory Reform in the United Kingdom Government Capacity to Assure High Quality Regulation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The Evolution of Regulatory Policy in OECD Countries

In the past 20 years a key topic of public sector reform in OECD countries has been the emergence of regulatory policy. During this period, the nature of regulation has undergone profound and rapid change. It evolved from early efforts of eliminating regulation and gave way to more systemic regulatory reform, involving a mixture of de-regulation, re-regulation and improving the effectiveness of...

Public Management Occasional Papers No. 19 PUTTING MARKETS TO WORK: THE DESIGN AND USE OF MARKETABLE PERMITS AND OBLIGATIONS

FOREWORD Regulations are the sinews of modern government, the legal instruments that connect abstract government policies with the day-today activities of commerce and private life. In the highly-developed administrative states characteristic of OECD countries, government effectiveness has become to a significant degree dependent on the quality of the systems that develop, enforce, adjudicate, ...