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Integrated Water Resources Management and the Right to Water Security

The purpose of this policy brief is to reflect upon global objectives for water management and the way that these relate to national concerns about water in the United Kingdom...

Rights, Interests, and the Water Resource: Crossing the Rubicon?

This policy brief discusses the fitness for purpose of rights-based approaches to the freshwater resource, and the increasing significance of climate change and population...

From Regulatory Capture to Regulatory Space?

This policy brief revisits the idea of regulatory capture to explore the influences that changed financial sector regulation, including new ideological currents, changes in...

The End of Press Freedom

The fourth and final policy brief from our series assessing the progress of the Leveson Inquiry and the future of media regulation sees the Director of the ...

Regulating for Communication

In this policy brief, political philosopher Baroness Onora O'Neill responds to the debate over press regulation sparked by the phone hacking scandal by assessing the...

The Leveson Inquiry: There's a bargain to be struck over media freedom and regulation

The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice, and ethics of the British press was triggered when the phone-hacking scandal’s full scale became clear in July 2011 and closed...

Press Regulation: Taking account of media convergence

This policy brief by media expert Lara Fielden proposes a radical new framework for press regulation based on a comparative study of international press councils, which...

The Risk vs Hazard Debate: Reconciling Inconsistencies in Health & Safety Regulation within the UK and across the EU

Dr Sweta Chakraborty reviews the current debate over health & safety regulation, representing the views of academics, regulators, government, and lawyers, including the...

The Purposes, Organization, and Supervision of Regulators: Implications for Accountability and Liability

This policy brief advances the theory of 'confirmation bias' to explain recent systematic defective regulatory decision-making and actions, and posits that accountability and...

How Governments React to Financial Crises: The Savings and Loans Crisis as a Test Case

This paper assesses the regulatory response to the savings and loans crisis of the 1980s to highlight the responsibility of various agents - goverment, regulators, financial...

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