This three-year project (February 2006 – February 2009) examined regulatory impact assessment (RIA) in a comparative framework covering six countries (Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, and USA) and the European Union.
The project was carried out by Claudio Radaelli, with my research assistance. The aim of this project was to provide original evidence on how RIA is performed, and examine its efficiency, credibility and legitimacy in a comparative framework. The project tested rival alternative hypotheses on the consequences of RIA drawn from theories of regulation, namely (a) political control of the bureaucracy, (b) different types of learning, (c) administrative modernization and (d) symbolic politics.
Radaelli, C.M. and F. De Francesco (2010) “Regulatory Impact Assessment” in (eds.) M. Cave, R. Baldwin, and M. Lodge, Oxford Handbook on Regulation, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
De Francesco, F, C.M. Radaelli, and V.E. Troeger (2012) “Implementing Regulatory Innovations in Europe: The Case of Impact Assessment”, Journal of European Public Policy, 19:4, 491-511.