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This chapter aims to contribute to the academic discussion of the role of political and institutional factors that explain the effectiveness of local regulation. The institutional analysis perspective can facilitate understanding of the factors that encourage a good design and administration of the regulatory systems at the local level. The development of a local regulatory system is modulated by its institutional matrix, which structures the relations between public and private actors and encourages or constrains their behaviour. Some institutional variables of the local regulatory system (decision-making system, control systems, transparency, resources, and technical capacity of local government) have a direct impact on the capacity of policy to design and administer regulatory systems. An analytical model of the study of local regulatory policy network organisational and institutional characteristics is presented. The model analyses the institutional and organisational factors that can potentially undermine the efficiency and effectiveness of local regulatory systems and proposes how to measure the impact of these factors in a particular regulatory area. The chapter also introduces to the quantitative and qualitative methodologies for this analysis.
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Sancho, D. (2017). The Impact of Institutional and Organisational Factors in the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Local Regulatory Systems. In: Asquer, A., Becchis, F., Russolillo, D. (eds) The Political Economy of Local Regulation. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58828-9_5
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