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The politics of regulation :

(Number (ISBN

0333927508

(Number (ISBN

9780333927502

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b781955

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The politics of regulation :

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[Book]

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privatized utilities in Britain /

First Statement of Responsibility

Alison Young.

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New York :

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Palgrave,

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2001.

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xi, 172 pages ;

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23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-168) and index.

Text of Note

"The privatization of the utilities - telephone, gas, electricity and water - by the Conservative governments of the 1980s and 1990s represented a decisive move away from the postwar consensus. The appointment of individual, high-profile regulators to oversee the newly privatized companies meant that it was also an experiment in reinventing government. This study explores the often controversial development of regulation from a political viewpoint, covering the RPI-X price formula and regulators' relations with the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on takeovers and mergers. It provides a detailed examination of how consumer concerns came to the top of the agenda, especially after Labour came to power in 1997, including episodes such as the Yorkshire Water crisis of 1995 and the furore over directors' salaries. It explains the problems of integrating environmental policy. Accountability is still unsatisfactory, in spite of the efforts of parliamentary select committees, so the question remains, 'Who regulates the regulators?'."--Jacket.

Privatization-- Great Britain.

Public utilities-- Deregulation-- Great Britain.

Administration publique-- Déréglementation-- Grande-Bretagne.

Déréglementation-- Grande-Bretagne.

Privatisations-- Grande-Bretagne.

Privatisierung.

Privatisierung.

Privatization.

Public utilities-- Deregulation.

Services publics-- Grande-Bretagne-- Gestion.

Great Britain.

Großbritannien.

Großbritannien.

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Young, Alison.

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20201206203510.0

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