Strategies and Tools of Regulatory Governance: Lessons Learned, and the Way Forward

Abstract

Across policy domains and political systems, governments rely on regulation as a central mode of governance. Yet, regulation is not uniform; it combines diverse strategies, ranging from self- and co-regulation to process- and performance-based control, as well as from incentive-driven instruments to Command & Control. These configurations reveal how states translate political, institutional, and societal pressures into distinct strategies of regulatory governance. The panel aims to contribute to the Standing Group’s ongoing discussion on how regulation works, not merely as rule-making, but as a strategic, adaptive, and relational practice that shapes state-society interactions. This panel invites theoretical and empirical papers that examine how regulatory strategies are designed, hybridized, and adapted across time, levels, and sectors. We particularly welcome comparative, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral contributions that shed light on the following themes: - Conceptual and typological work on regulatory strategies, instruments and logic of control - The hybridization of regulatory instruments - Political and institutional drivers of regulatory design and change - Sectoral applications, like higher education, health, environment, digital platforms, finance, infrastructure - Relationships between regulatory strategies, trust, legitimacy, and capacity

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