Download or read book The Regulatory State in an Age of Governance written by Roger King and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a highly readable and comprehensive account of the regulatory state and governance. It examines both key concepts and theories and important policy domains, and utilises comparative, historical and transnational perspectives. A critical theme is consideration of whether the regulatory state that has developed in recent decades, often as an accompaniment to marketization public policies, is an authoritarian or a liberalizing mode of governance.