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Regulation & Governance

Edited by:
Carol A. Heimer, Robert A. Kagan, David Levi-Faur, David J. Vogel

Impact Factor: 1.591

Regulation & Governance serves as the leading platform for the study of regulation and governance by political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, historians, criminologists, psychologists, anthropologists, economists and others. Research on regulation and governance, once fragmented across various disciplines and subject areas, has emerged at the cutting edge of paradigmatic change in the social sciences. Through the peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance, we seek to advance discussions between various disciplines about regulation and governance, promote the development of new theoretical and empirical understanding, and serve the growing needs of practitioners for a useful academic reference. Published quarterly, Regulation & Governance is essential reading for academics, regulators and regulatory experts throughout the world. It provides a forum for original research, debate and refinement of key ideas and findings in one of the most important fields of the social sciences. The editors and outstanding editorial board of this peer-reviewed journal are committed to open and critical dialogue and encourage scholarly papers from different disciplines, using diverse methodologies and from any area of regulation.

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Regulation & Governance debut impact factor 1.591

Wiley-Blackwell is proud to announce Regulation & Governance's debut Impact Factor is an outstanding 1.591 - a stellar result for a new journal that reflects the quality and relevance of the papers published. This is a major achievement for the Journal, and Wiley-Blackwell would like to congratulate and thank the journal's founding editors John Braithwaite, Cary Coglianese and David Levi-Faur, for their hard work and dedication to attracting and publishing top-quality research, and for their commitment to seeing Regulation & Governance become a leading journal in this growing field.

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Regulation & Governance Annual 'Best Article' Prize

The editors and Wiley-Blackwell congratulate the joint winners of the 2009 Regulation & Governance Prize for best article:

John W. Cioffi, Adversarialism versus legalism: Juridification and litigation in corporate governance reform, published in Volume 3 Issue 3
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Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen and Christine Parker, Testing responsive regulation in regulatory enforcement, published in Volume 3 Issue 4.

The selection panel consisted of the four editors: Prof. Carol Heimer (Northwestern University), Prof. Robert A. Kagan (University of California, Berkeley), Prof. David Levi-Faur (Hebrew University) and Prof. David Vogel (University of California, Berkeley). The Prize comes with a US$500 award and a complimentary one-year print and online subscription to the journal. The next prize will be awarded for articles from Volume 4 (2010) and will be announced in early 2011.

Past winners

The winning article from 2008 was Wheat from Chaff: Third Party Monitoring and FEC Enforcement Actions by Todd Lochner, Dorie Apollonio and Rhett Tatum (Volume 2 Issue 2).

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Reasons to publish in Regulation & Governance

Regulation & Governance is an excellent choice of outlet for your research, providing authors with:

Referee reports from highly prestigious experts in the field, providing valuable insight and feedback to authors

Rapid speed to publication: the average time from submission to decision is just 48 days! Articles are published on our Early View service to ensure journal content is available to readers as quickly as possible

Exposure to researchers around the world: In 2007 Regulation & Governance had the fifth highest rate of downloads-per-article among all of Wiley-Blackwell's 1,400 scholarly journals

The prestige of publishing in a leading international journal. The journal is led by internationally renowned experts in the field, and supported by an Editorial Board of outstanding scholars from a range of disciplines.