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Regulators as 'agents': power and personality in risk regulation and a role for agent-based simulation

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  • G.J. Davies
  • G. Kendall
  • E. Soane
  • J. Li
  • F. Charnley
  • S.J.T. Pollard

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We critically examine how evidence and knowledge are brokered between the various actors (agents) in regulatory decisions on risk. Following a précis of context and regulatory process, we explore the role power and personality might play as evidence is synthesised and used to inform risk decisions, providing a review of the relevant literature from applied psychology, agent-based simulation and regulatory science. We make a case for the adoption of agent-based tools for addressing the sufficiency of evidence and resolving uncertainty in regulatory decisions. Referring to other environmental applications of agent-based decision-making, we propose how an agent model might represent power structures and personality characteristics with the attending implications for the brokering of regulatory science. This critical review has implications for the structuring of evidence that informs environmental decisions and the personal traits required of modern regulators operating in facilitative regulatory settings.

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  • G.J. Davies & G. Kendall & E. Soane & J. Li & F. Charnley & S.J.T. Pollard, 2010. "Regulators as 'agents': power and personality in risk regulation and a role for agent-based simulation," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 13(8), pages 961-982, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jriskr:v:13:y:2010:i:8:p:961-982
    DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2010.486075
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    1. Jeroen van der Heijden, 2021. "Risk as an Approach to Regulatory Governance: An Evidence Synthesis and Research Agenda," SAGE Open, , vol. 11(3), pages 21582440211, July.
    2. Davies, G.J. & Kendall, G. & Soane, Emma & Li, J. & Rocks, S.A. & Jude, S.R. & Pollard, S.J.T., 2014. "Regulators as agents: modelling personality and power as evidence is brokered to support decisions on environmental risk," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 51229, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Omanyo Abraham Otieno & Omae Peter Onderi & Disiye Margaret Awuor, 2021. "The Big Five Personality as a Correlate of Involvement in Violence among Students in Secondary Schools in Nyando Sub-County, Kenya," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 5(09), pages 244-256, September.

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