Addressing the risk, reading the landscape: The role of agency in regulation

Regulation and Governance

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 118-144

  Haines, Fiona ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compliance; Counterterrorism regulation; Human agency; Industrial disaster; Regulatory reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952155697     PISSN: 17485983     EISSN: 17485991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01097.x     Document Type: Article

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