Contents: Series preface; Introduction, Cary Coglianese and Robert A. Kagan; Part I Regulatory Policy Making: Administrative procedures as instruments of political control, Mathew D. McCubbins, Roger G. Noll and Barry R. Weingast; Speed bumps and road blocks: procedural controls and regulatory change, Stuart Schapiro; Institutions and environmental performance in 17 Western democracies, Lyle A. Scruggs; The hare and the tortoise revisited: the new politics of consumer and environmental regulation in Europe, David Vogel. Part II Regulatory Enforcement: Cooperation, deterrence and the ecology of regulatory enforcement, John T. Scholz; Reconsidering styles of regulatory enforcement: patterns in Danish agro-environmental inspection, Peter J.

May and Søren Winter; Regulatory enforcement in a federalist system, John T. Scholz and Feng Heng Wei. Part III Responses to Regulation: Testing an unexpected utility model of corporate deterrence, John Braithwaite and Toni Makkai ; Does regulatory enforcement work? A panel analysis of OSHA enforcement, Wayne B. Gray and John T. Scholz; Poles apart: a comparative study of waste management regulation and enforcement in the United States and Japan, Kazumasu Aoki and John W Cioffi ; Explaining corporate environmental performance: how does regulation matter?, Robert A. Kagan, Neil Gunningham and Dorothy Thornton. Part IV New Directions in Regulatory Design: Market-oriented regulation of environmental problems in The Netherlands, Gjalt Huppes and Robert A. Kagan; What can we learn from the grand policy experiment? Positive and normative lessons from SO2 allowance trading, Robert N.

Stavins; Management-based regulation: prescribing private management to achieve public goals, Cary Coglianese and David Lazer; Performance-based regulation and regulatory regimes: the saga of leaky buildings, Peter J. May; Name index.