JAYASURIYA, Kanishka

The new regulatory state and relational capacity - UK : Policy Press, oct. 2004

Globalisation has transformed the internal architecture of the state, leading to the emergence of a new form of regulatory state that operates through mechanisms of metagovernance – that is, the governance of governance. This has important implications for various models of policy capacity. Conventional accounts of policy capacity embody an attribute model of capacity that seeks to identify a set of transformative powers over policy and structure. In contrast, the new regulatory state requires that capacity be understood as a relational term that structures various sites of governance and links dispersed regulatory resources and agents