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The Taming of the Stew

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Based on a case study of food safety governance, this article examines how rule-makers can employ additional intermediaries to address agency problems between the rule-makers and the initial intermediaries upon whom they rely to govern targets of regulation. Reliance on additional intermediaries can reduce agency problems between rule-makers and initial intermediaries, without replicating those problems between the rule-makers and the additional intermediaries. This analysis also reveals that, in some cases, intermediaries make rules, which blurs the distinction between rule-makers and intermediaries. Moreover, in complex governance networks, such as the food safety system, it is misleading to attribute the origin of many governance standards to authoritative “rule-makers.†Instead, standards emerge out of network interactions. The article concludes that by favoring the term “regulator†rather than “rule-maker,†the RIT model can avoid mischaracterizing rulemaking in complex regulatory systems without compromising its explanatory power with regard to reliance on intermediaries.

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  • Timothy D. Lytton, 2017. "The Taming of the Stew," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 670(1), pages 78-92, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:670:y:2017:i:1:p:78-92
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716217690330
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    1. Luc Brès & Sébastien Mena & Marie‐Laure Salles‐Djelic, 2019. "Exploring the formal and informal roles of regulatory intermediaries in transnational multistakeholder regulation," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 13(2), pages 127-140, June.

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