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Regulation forms an important component of the institutional arrangements of the contemporary age of governance, where regulators, public authorities, regulated firms and other actors are mutually dependent on exchanges of resources. Differently from hierarchical forms of coordination, governance arrangements create more space for struggles over autonomy and political control. Political overseers may often seek to retain some control of regulators, sometimes when they aim to protect the interests of incumbents. The chapter concludes with the discussion of the regulation of electricity and telecommunications in Brazil in the 1990s and 2000s.
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Asquer, A. (2018). The Politics of Regulation. In: Regulation of Infrastructure and Utilities. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67735-4_6
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