...Report is still compelling. In an earlier chapter we referred to Selznick's definition of regulation as sustained and focused control exercised by a public agency over activities that are valued by a community (Selznick 1985: 363-4). Regulation, Selznick suggests, is not achieved simply by passing...

...(1985), an American legal theorist, provides a helpful description in his definition of regulation as a sustained and focused control exercised by a public agency over activities that are socially valued.1 An environmental policy perspective requires, in addition to this formulation, that...

...because of high damage awards to the victims by the courts. B. Regulation I. Introduction Regulation is a "sustained and focused control exercised by a public agency over activities that are valued by a community".23 It is a centralised system because the state plays a major role in the formulation and...

...'deregulate',1 they clearly have a more specific concept in mind. We can assume that the Selznick meaning: 'a sustained and focused control exercised by a public agency over activities that are valued by a community',2 would be the most appropriate. 2.1 The historical development of regulation in Britain...

...understanding of regulation in many regulatory systems. Another often-used definition holds that regulation is a "sustained and focused control exercised by a public agency over activities that are valued by a community."9 The emphasis on "activities valued by the community" is used to distinguish regulation...

...within American public policy and administration. According to Philip Selznick, regulation refers to sustained and focused control exercised by a public agency over activities that are socially valued." Aspects of the regulatory process include the objective, the subject, the object,...

...first meaning of regulation he finds in the literature is "any form of behavioral control"; the second, "a sustained and focused control exercised by a public agency over activities that are valued by a community"; and the third, and his preferred definition, is "regulation is fundamentally a political-economic...

...first meaning of regulation he finds in the literature is "any form of behavioral control"; the second, "a sustained and focused control exercised by a public agency over activities that are valued by a community"; and the third, and his preferred definition, is "regulation is fundamentally a political-economic...

...or information. Instead, we have chosen to follow a classical definition referring to regulation as 'sustained and focused control exercised by a public agency over activities that are valued by a community' (Selznick, 1985: 363). This definition does not focus particularly on binding rules, and...

...provision, among other things, must be the subject of regulation. Regulation has been defined as 'the sustained and focused control exercised by a public agency over activities that are valued by a community' (Carifio, 2002; Minogue, 2001, and Baldwin and Cave, 1999, p. 2, both cited in Carifio)....