Constructing and contesting legitimacy and accountability in polycentric regulatory regimes
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The legitimacy and accountability of polycentric regulatory regimes, particularly at the transnational level, has been severely criticized, and the search is on to find ways in which they can be enhanced. This paper argues that before developing even more proposals, we need to pay far greater attention to the dynamics of accountability and legitimacy relationships, and to how those in regulatory regimes respond to them. The article thus first seeks to develop a closer analysis of three key elements of legitimacy and accountability relationships which it suggests are central to these dynamics: The role of the institutional environment in the construction of legitimacy, the dialectical nature of accountability relationships, and the communicative structures through which accountability occurs and legitimacy is constructed. Second, the article explores how organizations in regulatory regimes respond, or are likely to respond, to multiple legitimacy and accountability claims, and how they themselves seek to build legitimacy in complex and dynamic situations. The arguments developed here are not normative: There is no “grand solution” proposed to the normative questions of when regulators should be considered legitimate or how to make them so. Rather, the article seeks to analyse the dynamics of legitimacy and accountability relationships as they occur in an attempt to build a more realistic foundation on which grander “how to” proposals can be built. For until we understand these dynamics, the grander, normative arguments risk being simply pipe dreams – diverting, but in the end making little difference.
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‘Hypernudge’: big Data as a mode of regulation by design
Yeung, K. (2017) · Information, Communication & Society · doi:10.1080/1369118x.2016.1186713 · Cited by 868 · see citing works
Algorithmic regulation: A critical interrogation
Yeung, K. (2018) · Regulation & Governance · doi:10.1111/rego.12158 · Cited by 842 · see citing works
Murphy, K., Tyler, T. R., & Curtis, A. (2009) · Regulation & Governance · doi:10.1111/j.1748-5991.2009.01043.x · Cited by 313 · see citing works
Making the case for laws that improve health: a framework for public health law research
BURRIS, S., WAGENAAR, A. C., SWANSON, J., IBRAHIM, J. K., WOOD, J., & MELLO, M. M. (2010) · Milbank Quarterly · doi:10.1111/j.1468-0009.2010.00595.x · Cited by 241 · see citing works
Collective action in a polycentric water governance system
Baldwin, E., McCord, P., Dell'Angelo, J., & Evans, T. (2018) · Environmental Policy and Governance · doi:10.1002/eet.1810 · Cited by 120 · see citing works
Beyond explainability: justifiability and contestability of algorithmic decision systems
Henin, C., & Le Métayer, D. (2022) · AI & SOCIETY · doi:10.1007/s00146-021-01251-8 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
Fear the Reaper: How content moderation rules are enforced on social media
Common, M. F. (2020) · International Review of Law, Computers & Technology · doi:10.1080/13600869.2020.1733762 · Cited by 38 · see citing works
- Authors
- Black, J.
- Affiliations
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Black, Julia
- ORCID
- Black, Julia
- Venue
- Regulation & Governance
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-03-13
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 137-164
- ISSN
- 1748-5983 (ISSN-L)
- 1748-5991
- OpenAlex
- W3121399009
- Cited by
- 1,215
- References
- 139
- Citations by year
- 2026: 80 · 2025: 48 · 2024: 72 · 2023: 106 · 2022: 74 · 2021: 59 · 2020: 121 · 2019: 98 · 2018: 129 · 2017: 61 · 2016: 58 · 2015: 28 · 2014: 60 · 2013: 56 · 2012: 46
- FWCI
- 120.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Regulation & Governance (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (acceptedVersion)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Finance › Global Financial Regulation and Crises
- Keywords
- polycentric governance, transnational regulation, regulatory legitimacy, accountability, institutional environment, communicative structure, regulatory agencies, legitimacy claims
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