ABSTRACT
This part of the book aims to anchor the various threads of the previous chapters in the detailed context of case studies of particular sectors that were subjected to the discipline of meta-regulation. Throughout, the overall concern has been to explore the question of meta-regulation’s impact on social citizenship while at the same time fleshing out the features of meta regulation that can be interpreted as a mode of incipient legality. These issues have been approached from a range of perspectives: conceptual (Chapter One), historical (Chapter Two), and interpretive empirical elaboration of general trends in community-political (Chapter Three) and bureaucratic-technical (Chapter Four) responses to the initial agenda-setting stage of reform. These various perspectives all contain within them a tension between presenting meta-regulation from a standpoint of institutional solidity on the one hand, and on the other hand with a focus on the interpretive fluidity of its categories and, sometimes, institutional location.
