Hybridization of governance: The challenge of balancing policy impacts

Hybridization of governance: The challenge of balancing policy impacts

van der Heijden, J.J.

OTB Research Institute

2009-10-16

This paper focuses on the impacts of hybrid forms of governance. Such hybrids are characterized by an arrangement of tasks and responsibilities, regarding regulatory governance, between public and private sector agencies. Empirically the paper is based on regulatory reforms in Australian and Canadian built environment policy. Within these countries building regulations are drawn up on Federal level, whilst the implementation and enforcement of these regulations comes to State, Territorial and Provincial governments. In order to speed up process times and lower administrative burden, private sector involvement was introduced in the 1980/1990s with differences amongst States, Territories and Provinces. Based on a series of elite interviews and secondary accounts the impacts of these new hybrid forms of governance are discussed. It is found that a certain relationship appears to exist between the amount of private sector involvement in a hybrid and its impacts.

regulation & governance
hybrid public-private partnerships
regulatory enforcement

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Law, Power, and Inequality in the 21st Century

Law and Society Association 2009 CONFERENCE, 27 June – 1 July 2009

Institutional Repository

conference paper

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