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Harker, Michael 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8410-1279 and Reader, David
(2022)
How statutory duties shape the decision making of an economic regulator: Insights from the energy regulatory community, past and present.
Journal of Law and Society, 49 (1).
pp. 118-150.
ISSN 0263-323X
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Abstract
This article is concerned with how statutory duties structure regulatory decisions. Rather than focusing on the role of the courts, we explore statutory interpretation by a regulator as a quasi-autonomous exercise, with external influences and internal norms and customs. To investigate this further, we conducted a series of semi-structured elite interviews with senior members of the energy ‘regulatory community’, past and present. Energy regulation has been selected as a case study due to the controversies in recent years over the legitimate limits of economic regulation, as successive governments have imposed broader public interest goals on the regulator, resulting in a proliferation of statutory objectives. This increased complexity has arguably obscured the appropriate contours and rationales of economic regulation. Nevertheless, it is unrealistic to completely separate regulatory policy and politics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Early title: Statutory duties and shaping the decision-making of an economic regulator: insights from the energy regulation community past and present Funding information: This research was supported by the UK Energy Research Centre's EPSRC grant on Equity and Justice in Energy Markets (Grant Number: EP/L024756/1). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | sociology and political science,law ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Media, Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Competition, Markets and Regulation |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Feb 2022 11:30 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2023 22:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/83259 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/jols.12339 |
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