Welcome to The Regulation Podcast – helping you to understand what regulation is all about, what it’s for and why it matters to you, to businesses, to organisat...
President Trump and his team are making major changes to the US government. This includes in regulation, where he has signed an executive order that, for every new regulation, there should be 10 that are culled. To find out the latest, the Regulation Podcast from the Institute of Regulation has spoken to Professor Cary Coglianese, director of the Penn Program of Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania, a leading centre of academic expertise. Prof. Coglianese explains to Institute’s chair Marcial Boo the changes taking place and the potential risks and benefits. You can read more on the University of Pennsylvania here
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Episode 25: A Ministry of Regulation
This month's Regulation Podcast interviews Grainne Moss, CEO of the world's first Ministry for Regulation in New Zealand. Set up less than a year ago, the Ministry aims to improve the 200 regulatory systems in New Zealand, remove unnecessary rules and ensure that any new regulation is necessary and likely to work as intended. Grainne describes some of their early wins and the challenges ahead, recognising that regulation, alongside legislation and taxation, is one of any government's most important means of delivering its policy agenda.
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Episode 24: Is there too much or too little regulation?
This month's podcast focuses on an issue that every regulator grapples with. How do you know whether there is too much regulation or too little? And how do regulators get the balance right? Martin Stanley, former CEO of the Postal Regulator (now part of Ofcom), the Competition Commission and author of ‘How to Be a Civil Servant’, discusses how to spot too much regulation and what to do about it and the risks of too little regulation. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers, but in this latest edition of the Regulation Podcast we explore the core issues of this highly relevant debate.
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Episode 23: Regulating at Christmas
Many regulators work to an annual cycle, for the Advertising Standards Authority and the Food Standards Agency, December can be a busy month, with an increase in Christmas advertising and food consumption. This month's Regulation Podcast hears from Claire Forbes from the FSA and Matt Wilson from the ASA on how their regulators keep advertising honest and food safe.
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Episode 22: Using communications to regulate effectively
This month's podcast focuses on how regulators can use communications to tell people how to comply with the rules you're enforcing. We hear from two engagement experts who've worked in regulators, to understand how to get messages across to diverse audiences through varied external and internal channels. A must-listen for everyone working in communications in a regulatory context. Episode 22 of the Regulation Podcast is hosted by Marcial Boo, chair Institute of Regulation, with contributions from experts Anne Shevas and Stephen Hardwick.
Welcome to The Regulation Podcast – helping you to understand what regulation is all about, what it’s for and why it matters to you, to businesses, to organisations and to everyone. Listen to this new podcast show from the Institute of Regulation, packed full of insightful interviews with regulation leaders and experts and some energetic discussions on many aspects of regulatory theory and practice.
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