Regulatory Quality in Europe Concepts, Measures and Policy Processes

The European Union and its member states are investing in ambitious programmes for 'better regulation' and targets of regulatory quality. This book lifts the veil of excessively optimistic propositions covering the whole better regulation agenda. It provides an innovative conceptual framework to handle the political complexity of regulatory governance. It approaches better regulation as an emerging public policy, with its own political context, actors, problems, rules of interaction, instruments, activities and impacts.

Claudio M. Radaelli is Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair, and Director of the Centre for Regulatory Governance at the University of Exeter. Fabrizio De Francesco is ESRC Research Fellow and doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter.