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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.

Regulation & Governance welcomes a new Editorial team for 2009. Regulation & Governance starts the new year with a new Editorial team at its helm. The journal welcomes Carol A. Heimer (Northwestern University and American Bar Association), Robert A. Kagan (University of California, Berkeley) and David J. Vogel (University of California, Berkeley) as co-Editors - the three join existing Editor David Levi-Faur who remains as the journal's corresponding Editor. The new Editorial team are keen to build on the success that Regulation & Governance has experienced over the last two years and continue the journal's development as one of the world's key publication in the field. Regulation & Governance, along with Wiley-Blackwell, would also like to thank out-going Founding Editors, John Braithwaite and Cary Coglianese for all their hard work, dedication, committment and support in launching the journal and ensuring a solid foundation was built for future success.

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Regulation & Governance announces inaugural 'Best Article' prize winners

Wiley-Blackwell is delighted to announce the inaugural winner of the Regulation & Governance Prize for the best article published in the 2007-2008 volumes of the journal of the same name.

The winning article is 'Wheat from Chaff: Third Party Monitoring and FEC Enforcement Actions' by Todd Lochner, Dorie Apollonio and Rhett Tatum (Regulation & Governance, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 216-233).

In their article, Lochner, Apollonio, and Tatum test the widely held expectation that regulators can more effectively target serious violations when they have a broader array of sanctioning options in their enforcement arsenal. To test this theoretical expectation, Lochner, Apollonio, and Tatum analyze enforcement actions at the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) during period when the FEC received an expansion in its sanctioning options. What they find runs counter to expectations; they find the FEC was not better able to focus on the most serious violations after receiving a
broader array of sanctions. Lochner, Apollonio, and Tatum suggest that simply expanding sanctioning options, without also expanding monitoring resources, is not sufficient to enable regulators to prioritize their enforcement efforts toward the most serious problems.

The selection panel consisted of two of the journal's founding Editors, Prof. John Braithwaite (RegNet, Australian National University) and Prof. Cary Coglianese (Law, University of Pennsylvania).

The Editors, selection panel, and Wiley-Blackwell would like to congratulate Lochner, Appollonio, and Tatum, and thank them for their valuable contribution to scholarship and the journal.

The Regulation & Governance Prize comes with a US $500 award and a complimentary one-year print and online subscription to the journal. Prizes will be awarded in the future on an annual basis. The next prize will be awarded for articles from Volume 3 (2009) and will be announced in early 2010.

The winning article can be read online for free HERE.

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Regulation & Governance - Acceptance to Thomson Reuters SSCI

Wiley-Blackwell is proud to announce the acceptance or Regulation & Governance into Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). This is a major achievement for the Journal and Wiley-Blackwell would like to congratulate and thank the journal's inaugural 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. The journal has been indexed from Volume 1, Issue 1.

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OnlineOpen - OnlineOpen is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With OnlineOpen the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon publication via Wiley InterScience, as well as deposited in the funding agency's preferred archive.

In addition to publication online via Wiley InterScience, authors of OnlineOpen articles are permitted to post the final, published PDF of their article on a website, institutional repository or other free public server, immediately on publication.'

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http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/authorresources/onlineopen.html

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