Publisher's Synopsis
During the 1980s 'deregulation' and 'liberalisation' became key terms of the international vocabulary of public policy. Across a variety of sectors ? from financial markets to broadcasting, from industrial relations to telecommunications ? Germany appeared as the key European state in which the tensions between a powerful inherited 'regulatory culture' and new economic, technological and political forces were most obvious and dramatic. Against this background, The Politics of Regulation in Germany is a timely attempt to analyze the response of German regulatory policies to these new international challenges, including the Single European Market. This book is the first systematic analysis of the 'regulatory culture' of Germany from a political science and public policy angle. It provides both an overview of the general characteristics of the 'regulatory culture' and insight into the diversity at the sectoral level through a wide range of case studies.
