Limits of regulatory responsiveness: Democratic credentials of responsive regulation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hong, Seung-Hun; You, Jong-sung
• 署名单位: Australian National University; Australian National University
• 刊物名称: REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1748-5983
• DOI: 10.1111/rego.12193
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 413-427
• 关键词: corporate social-responsibility; meta-regulation; public-opinion; ACCOUNTABILITY; POLICY; ENFORCEMENT; governance; performance; capitalism; GOVERNMENT

摘要

Responsiveness and accountability constitute the process of democratic representation, reinforcing each other. Responsiveness asks elected representatives to adopt policies ex ante preferred by citizens, while accountability consists of the people's ex post sanctioning of the representatives based on policy outcomes. However, the regulatory literature tends to interpret responsiveness narrowly between a regulator and regulatees: the regulator is responsive to regulatees' compliance without considering broader public needs and preferences. Democratic regulatory responsiveness requires that the regulator should be responsive to the people, not just regulatees. We address this theoretical gap by pointing out the perils of regulatory capture and advancing John Braithwaite's idea of tripartism as a remedy. We draw out two conditions of democratic regulatory responsiveness from Philip Selznick - comprehensiveness and proactiveness. We then propose overlapping networked responsiveness based on indirect reciprocity among various stakeholders. This mechanism is the key to connecting regulatory responsiveness with accountability.