Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition

Bronwen Morgan, Dr, Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at Wadham, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK

• Contents: Introduction; Economic adjudication and the rule of law; Public law and political economy in the Australian administrative state; The contested terrain of regulatory conversation; Agenda-setting and bureaucratic politics; Implementation in competition's shadow; Technocratic citizenship; Appendices: Competition principles agreement; Conduct code agreement; Agreement to implement the national competition policy and related reforms; Bibliography;

Prize: Winner of the Hart/SLSA prize 2004 ’Meta regulation - different ways of seeing how regulatory processes are themselves regulated - is a central contemporary topic in regulatory research. It is also pivotal to an understanding of the transition from the Keynesian welfare state to the new regulatory state. Australian meta-regulatory practice has been internationally influential and Bronwen Morgan provides here the most systematic and intensive study of Australian regulation review processes and its implications for social citizenship. Her account is nuanced and thought-provoking. Those interested in how networks shape policy in states struggling to become more internationally competitive will find the account illuminating.’ Professor John Braithwaite, Australian National University, Australia '...an important contribution to the study of regulation and politics...' Public Law '...fascinating...the selection of the Australian case study is well justified and its relationship to other OECD experience carefully explained. The Australian case should be of wide interest to those interested both in national policies of regulatory reform and the adaptation of national regimes to the future requirements of regional and global regimes...' Public Administration 'The author's account of meta-regulation within the Australian system of governance offers a valuable and interesting snapshot of policymaking in practice and the potential, within a federal state, for the bureaucracy to exert significan influence within the regulatory process and, in turn, the potential for its decisions to be influenced by community interests.' European Public Law '...Morgan's thesis is an important one, and the book an interesting and though provoking read.' International and Comparative Law Quarterly