Is America on the wrong track? -- The role of government -- The usual suspects -- What do we need to explain? -- Why legislation is often badly designed -- Why regulation makes so many people angry -- Why working people and the poor do badly -- Bringing government closer to the people --...

This paper analyzes the contemporary emergence of neo-formalist and neo-functionalist approaches to law-making at a time when the state is seeking to reassert, reformulate and reconceptualize its regulatory competence, both domestically and transnationally. While the earlier turn to alternative...