Defining 'Better': Investigating a New Framework to Understand Quality of Regulation

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  • Morten Jarlbæk Pedersen
Better regulation is a political and scholarly theme, which has gained in both relevance and salience throughout the last two decades or so. Regulatory quality is the epicentre of these discussions. Despite this quality is seldom conceptualised in its own right. Thus, beyond loose principles, we are rarely aware of what we mean by ‘better’ regulation, and academic discussions hereof usually centre themselves on other topics such as meta-regulation and processes. This leaves the notion of quality hard to asses especially from a comparative perspective. In this paper, a core concept of quality is suggested. This concept is founded on an acknowledgement of the importance of the legal texts when it comes to achieving regulatory aims and objectives. The concept and methodology proposed has components from both law and political science and is sought to be of relevance to scholars and practitioners alike.
Translated title of the contributionDefinitionen af 'bedre': Undersøgelse af en ny måde at forstå reguleringens kvalitet på
Original languageEnglish
JournalEuropean Journal of Law Reform
Volume18
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)159-178
ISSN1387-2370
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2017

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