Complexity, Governance and Regulation
at 5:28pm
on Thursday, 13th February 2003
Julia Black, an academic in LSE's Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation, wrote a paper last year on 'decentred' understandings of regulation. It's one of the most thought-provoking things I've read in the last few months, even if her own project is ultimately quite limited.
It touches on a number of themes which are very close to Demos' heart:
- the complexity of modern social and economic life
- the fragmentation of power and knowledge and their distribution amongst a network of interdependent actors
- the impossibility of command-and-control and the possibility of self-government
- the characteristics of complex systems
It's really worth a read, even if you have no obvious interest in regulation, because the analysis goes to heart of some really profound issues about governance.
Julia Black, an academic in LSE's Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation, wrote a paper last year on 'decentred' understandings of regulation. It's one of the most thought-provoking things I've read in the last few months, even if her own project is ultimately quite limited.
It touches on a number of themes which are very close to Demos' heart:
- the complexity of modern social and economic life
- the fragmentation of power and knowledge and their distribution amongst a network of interdependent actors
- the impossibility of command-and-control and the possibility of self-government
- the characteristics of complex systems
It's really worth a read, even if you have no obvious interest in regulation, because the analysis goes to heart of some really profound issues about governance.
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