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10 - Regulatory Networks

Power, Legitimacy, and Compliance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2013

By
Abraham L. Newman  and
David Zaring
Edited by
Jeffrey L. Dunoff  and
Mark A. Pollack
Jeffrey L. Dunoff
Affiliation:
Temple University, Philadelphia
Mark A. Pollack
Affiliation:
Temple University, Philadelphia
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Summary

Cross-border collaboration among domestic regulatory agencies has become a defining feature of contemporary global governance. Substate actors meet with their peers from other jurisdictions to exchange information, coordinate enforcement, and even to harmonize the regulatory rules applied at home (Keohane and Nye 1977; Raustiala 2002; Slaughter 2004). Both the international relations (IR) and international law (IL) literatures have taken note of this form of transgovernmental cooperation, and a term in both literatures has been minted and widely adopted. “Regulatory networks” appear in myriad areas where globalization has affected a regulatory project shared across borders by agencies, industries, and interest groups. In many instances, economic interdependence forges interactions among jurisdictions with distinct domestic rules. The resulting governance frictions produce the impetus for regulatory interactions among domestic authorities delegated with responsibilities for market oversight. There are regulatory networks in antitrust (Whytock 2005; Damro 2006), aviation (Bermann 1993), data privacy (Bignami 2005; Newman 2008a), human rights (Cardenas 2003), national security (Krahmann 2003; Lipson 2005), and telecommunications (Bermann 1995) regulation, just to name a few.

In the world of financial regulation alone, which has been a particularly welcoming one for such networks, American regulators have joined the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Participants Group of major export credit agencies, the Financial Action Task Force (which deals with money laundering), the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) the semi-private International Accounting Standards Board, and the mostly private World Federation of Exchanges. In addition, the new Financial Stability Board (FSB) is meant to serve as a network of networks, coordinating the harmonization of financial regulation done by other financial regulatory networks and staffed, like them, by domestic agency officials (Singer 2004; Zaring 2005; Baker 2009; Posner 2009; Helleiner 2010; Bach and Newman 2010a; Brummer 2012).

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Law and International Relations
The State of the Art
 , pp. 244 - 265
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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