The Politics of Regulation in the UK: Between Tradition, Contingency and Crisis (Understanding Governance)

[LAW]. Daniel Fitzpatrick. "The Politics of Regulation in the UK: Between Tradition, Contingency and Crisis (Understanding Governance)." London: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, 2016. First edition. English language. Hardcover with pictorial boards. Nonfiction academic law text in two parts and seven chapters with bibliography and index. 8 1/2 x 6 inches. 14 oz. x, 232 pp. Text clean. Like New to Fine. ISBN: 1137461985. "This book explores the discourse of regulatory crisis in the UK and examines why, despite the increasing contestation of the principles underpinning the regulatory state, its institutions and practices continue to be firmly embedded within the governance of the British state. It considers its implications for our understanding of the contemporary nature of the British state, and to the study of regulation which is no longer confined to the domain of low politics, populated by technocrats, but is scrutinized by elected politicians, and the subject of the front pages rather than the financial pages. The author sets the British regulatory tradition in a wider context, both spatially, in terms of the challenges presented by Europeanization, and temporally, critically analyzing the process of crisis construction in the narratives of neoliberalism and participatory democracy in the contemporary era.".…