TY - BOOK A1 - Wegrich, Kai A1 - Lodge, Martin T1 - Managing regulation : regulatory analysis, politics and policy Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0230298804 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] ER - TY - GEN A1 - Wegrich, Kai A1 - Lodge, Martin T1 - Executive politics in times of crisis Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0230304864 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wegrich, Kai A1 - Lodge, Martin T1 - Crowdsourcing and Regulatory Reviews: A New Way of Challenging Red Tape in British Government? JF - Regulation and Governance N2 - Much has been said about the appeal of digital government devices to enhance consultation on rulemaking. This paper explores the most ambitious attempt by the UK central government so far to draw on “crowdsourcing” to consult and act on regulatory reform, the “Red Tape Challenge.” We find that the results of this exercise do not represent any major change to traditional challenges to consultation processes. Instead, we suggest that the extensive institutional arrangements for crowdsourcing were hardly significant in informing actual policy responses: neither the tone of the crowdsourced comments, the direction of the majority views, nor specific comments were seen to matter. Instead, it was processes within the executive that shaped the overall governmental responses to this initiative. The findings, therefore, provoke wider debates about the use of social media in rulemaking and consultation exercises. KW - Consultation KW - Crowdsourcing KW - Regulatory review KW - UK government Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12048 SN - 1748-5983 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 46 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wegrich, Kai A1 - Lodge, Martin T1 - Public administration and executive politics: perennial questions in changing contexts JF - Public Policy and Administration N2 - The fields of political science and public administration are said to be drifting apart. This article argues that a focus on executive politics – the politics of the executive and of the execution of policies – offers a key avenue to maintain a useful conversation that focuses on perennial questions that are shared across research traditions. This conversation should concentrate on the ‘administrative factor’ in political life and the ‘political factor’ in administrative life. This article develops this argument in three steps. First, it defines the field of executive politics. Second, it considers the rationale why a focus on executive politics is pertinent at this particular time. Third, it discusses the challenges that a turn towards executive politics faces. This article concludes by considering the position of British public administration in the field of executive politics. Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076712438724 SN - 0952-0767 VL - 27 IS - 3 SP - 212 EP - 229 PB - Sage CY - Los Angeles [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wegrich, Kai A1 - Lodge, Martin T1 - Enhancing Administrative Capacities for better Governance: Seven Recommendations T2 - Governance Report 2014 Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-0198706618 SP - 151 EP - 170 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wegrich, Kai A1 - Lodge, Martin A1 - Wise, Ramsey T1 - Governance Innovations T2 - Governance Report 2014 Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-0198706618 SP - 77 EP - 110 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wegrich, Kai A1 - Lodge, Martin T1 - Conclusion: executive politics in a changing climate T2 - Executive Politics in Times of Crisis Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0230304864 SP - 284 EP - 296 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wegrich, Kai A1 - Lodge, Martin T1 - Executive politics and policy instruments T2 - Executive Politics in Times of Crisis Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0230304864 SP - 118 EP - 135 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wegrich, Kai A1 - Lodge, Martin T1 - Introduction: executive politics in times of crisis T2 - Executive Politics in Times of Crisis Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0230304864 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Hoboken (NJ) [u.a.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wegrich, Kai A1 - Lodge, Martin T1 - Arguing about Financial Regulation: Comparing National Discourses on the Global Financial Crisis JF - PS: Political Science and Politics N2 - As we write, the world is still in the grips of a financial crisis. Germany was one of the first countries to bail out a bank in July 2007. Then, in September 2007, the United Kingdom (UK) witnessed a run on a building society, Northern Rock, and the subsequent widespread nationalization of its banking sector. In the United States, the crisis led to a number of collapses among financial institutions, most famously Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and the bail out of the insurance group, AIG, all in 2008. Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096511001351 SN - 1537-5935 VL - 44 IS - 4 SP - 726 EP - 730 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER -