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100 1 _aMALONEY, Willian A
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245 1 0 _aRegulation an episodic policy-making environment :
_bthe water industry in England and Wales
260 _c2001
520 3 _aThis article describes and analyses the evolving regulatory game in the post-privatized water industry. It highlights a regulatory environment that is more complex than that which existed under public ownership, and an industry which is subject to heavier regulation in the private sector than it was in the public sector. There has been erosion of the strict public/private divide following privatization. The article highlights an episodic and seemingly incogruous policy-making environment that defies consistent characterization: sometimes private consensus is the main feature and sometimes it is public conflict. It also illustrates that while there are two broad-based constituencies of interest active in the water sector - cost and environmental - the composition of these coalitions mutates depending on the issues being considered. Indeed, there are occasions when core constituency participants `defect` and join the `opposing side`
773 0 8 _tPublic Administration an International Quarterly
_g79, 3, p. 625-642
_d, 2001
_w
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998 _a20030121
_bCassio
_cCassio
998 _a20060609
_b1205^b
_cQuiteria
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
_c10445
_d10445
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