Rules as Data: Interdisciplinary approaches to regulation

Abstract

This panel addresses the question of different dimensions of regulation and the reasons for and implications of their choice from an inter-and multidisciplinary perspective. Scholarship on different types and dimensions of regulation, governance modes and regimes, policy paradigms and instruments, institutional design and democracy has found that rules matter, differ and change. For example, scholars have focused on the restrictiveness or permissiveness of rules, regulatory density, and the procedural intensity of enforcement. The empirical rendering of these types and dimensions of regulation largely depends on how rules are gauged. In this panel, we invite contributions that rethink or innovate such classifications from an interdisciplinary perspective. For example, policy design and legal perspectives can enrich our understanding of the bindingness of different legal tools chosen. Policy implementation perspectives help us understand how rules change in the practice of implementation, as opposed to on paper. Computational social science perspectives are useful for understanding quality dimensions of regulation, and what their implications are for instance for democratic quality.

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