Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia: Democratic Legitimacy, Safeguards and Executive Aggrandisement

by Andrew Edgar

This book shines a spotlight on the way in which parliamentary scrutiny of regulations provides the primary support for democratic legitimacy for regulations in the UK and Australia.

This democratic safeguard is supplemented by public consultation processes. Despite commonly expressed concerns that regulation-making is secretive and undemocratic, it can be recognised to be a democratically sound and important feature of modern law...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509972285
• ISBN13: 9781509972289
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"