This is a working paper intended as the framing paper for a workshop on the rise of the regulatory state in the Global South. The paper, and the broader workshop, explore whether, and how, the rise of the regulatory state in the Global South, and its implications for processes of governance, are...

The 1990s and 2000s have witnessed a spurt of energetic institution-building in the developing world, as regulatory agencies emerge to take over the role of the executive in key sectors. This rise of the regulatory state of the south is barely noticed both by scholars of regulation and of...