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The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South: Infrastructure and Development in Emerging Economies
Author(s): Navroz K. Dubash (Editor), Bronwen Morgan
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: August 24, 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 320 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199677166
- ISBN-13: 9780199677160
Book Description
This volume seeks to provoke such a discussion by empirically exploring the emergence of regulatory agencies of a range of developing countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The cases focus on telecommunications, electricity, and water: sectors that have often been at the frontlines of this transition.
The central question for the volume is: Are there distinctive features of the regulatory state of the South, shaped by the political-economic context of the global south in the last two decades? To assist in exploring this question, the volume includes brief commentaries on the case studies from a range of disciplines: development economics, law and regulation, development sociology, and comparative politics. Collectively, the volume seeks to shape the contours of a productive inter-disciplinary conversation on the emergence of a significant empirical phenomenon – the rise of regulatory agencies in the developing world – with implications both for the study of regulation and the study of development.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Bronwen Morgan joined UNSW Law School as a Professor in Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in October 2012, having taught at the University of Bristol, UK for seven years. Prior to Bristol, she taught at the University of Oxford in association with both St Hilda’s College and Wadham College and remains an Associate Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Socio-legal Studies. She holds a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley as well as Honours degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney. She is a past Trustee of the US-based Law and Society Association, past Executive Member of the UK Socio-legal Studies Association, a co-editor of the Cambridge University
Law in Context book series, and serves on the boards of a number of interdisciplinary journals including Economy and Society, Regulation and Governance, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, and International Journal of Law in Context.
