Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules: Multi-Level Regulatory Governance(Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy)

The dynamics of multi-level regulatory governance are ever-changing, not just in a North American context, but in a global one as well. Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules, clarifies the nature, causes, and dynamics of levels of regulatory governance in, or affecting, Canada. Edited by G. Bruce Doern and Robert Johnson, this collection makes conceptual and practical contributions to the debate over what kinds of principles and institutional approaches can resolve the problems of multi-level regulatory governance. This is the first text to provide an integrated discussion of key politico-institutional issues such as smart regulation, innovation, social and economic regulatory governance, accountability and transparency in Canada through a study of the multi-level regulatory interactions that the nation must function within. Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules considers various sectors where rule-making spans all or most of the four levels of jurisdiction - international, federal, provincial, and city or local - in areas such as food safety, investment and trade, forestry, drinking water, oil and gas, and emergency management. A central argument of the collection is that the pressure to merge, collapse or rationalize levels of regulation is mainly driven by business interests, liberalized trade ideas, and related technological changes. Economic concerns about Canada's declining productivity compared to the U.S. are also discussed, as are issues of security, terrorism, and core business and economic concerns in the post-911 era.

Table of Contents:
Preface Abbreviations Multilevel Regulatory Governance: Concepts, Context, and Key Issues G. BRUCE DOERN and ROBERT JOHNSON Part One: Macro and Framework Regulatory Dimensions Risks and Rewards: The Case for Accelerating Canada-U.S. Regulatory Cooperation MICHAEL HART Regulatory Policy: The Potential for Common Federal-Provincial-Territorial-Policies on Regulation ROBERT JOHNSON Federal ‘Related Science Activities’ and Multilevel Regulation G. BRUCE DOERN Still between a Rock and a Hard Place: Local Government Autonomy and Regulation CHRISTOPHER STONEY Balancing Acts: Multilevel Regulation of Canada’s Voluntary Sector SUSAN D. PHILLIPS Part Two: Sectoral Regulatory Realms and Dynamics Multilevel Regulatory Governance of Food Safety: A Work in Progress GRACE SKOGSTAD Investment, Trade, and Growth: Multilevel Regulatory Regimes in Canada GEOFFREY HALE and CHRISTOPHER KUKUCHA Forest-Sector Regulation and Communities KARINE LEVASSEUR and STEPHANIE PATERSON Intergovernmental Regulation and Municipal Drinking Water CAREY HILL and KATHRYN HARRISON Municipal Wastewater Effluent and Multilevel Regulatory Governance JEN SULKERS The Alberta Oilpatch: Multilevel Regulation Transformed KEITH BROWNSEY Multilevel Regulatory Governance in the Health Sector JOAN MURPHY Regulating Risk: An Assessment of Canada’s Multilevel Emergency Management Framework PHIL GRAHAM and CHRISTOPHER STONEY Conclusions G. BRUCE DOERN and ROBERT JOHNSON Contributors

About the Author :
G. Bruce Doern is a professor emeritus in the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University. He is the author and co-author of numerous books on Canadian politics and policy, including Faith and Fear: The Free Trade Story, with Brian Tomlin, and Canadian Public Policy: Ideas, Structure, Process, with Richard Phidd. Robert Johnson is a lecturer i the school of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.