Regulatory Culture: A Theoretical Outline

9(4) Law and Policy 355-386 (1987)

SUNY Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1987-100

33 Pages Posted: 8 Aug 2014

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Errol Meidinger

University at Buffalo Law School; University of Freiburg

Date Written: 1987

Abstract

This paper connects the idea of culture to some central problems in the broader realm of socio-legal discourse about regulation, discretion, indeterminacy, and collective choice. Culture has become a central construct in recent studies of administrative regulation. This rise in discussions of regulatory culture is in part due to the inability of scholars to comprehend large parts of regulatory activity without reference to such a construct.

This paper is an effort to develop a useful framework for comprehending regulatory culture. That framework must not only be broad and flexible, but must also be focused enough to suggest particular lines of inquiry. The paper further develops arguments that culture is essential to all forms of collective action and social organization, and that social change must therefore operate through the medium of culture.

Keywords: Culture, Administrative Regulation, Regulatory Discourse, Regulatory Culture, Cultural Perspective, Socio-legal Discourse, Mutual Interdependence

Suggested Citation

Meidinger, Errol, Regulatory Culture: A Theoretical Outline (1987). 9(4) Law and Policy 355-386 (1987), SUNY Buffalo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1987-100, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2477104

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