Includes bibliographical references and index.

The politics and economics of regulatory impact assessment / Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli -- Regulatory impact assessment in legal studies / Anne C.M. Meuwese and Stijn van Voorst -- Approaches to cost-benefit analysis / Jason A. Schwartz -- Interpretive analysis and regulatory impact assessment / James R. Palmer -- Compliance and delivery analysis / Donald Macrae -- Towards a simpler and practical approach / Scott Jacobs -- Standard cost model / Paola Coletti -- Social impact assessment / Lorna Schrefler -- Courts and regulatory impact assessment / Alberto Alemanno -- Gender and regulatory impact assessment / Francesca Gains -- Consultation / Florentin Blanc and Giuseppa Ottimofiore -- Risk analysis / Elisa Vecchione -- Environment / John Turnpenny, Duncan Russel, Andrew Jordan, Alan Bond and William R. Sheate -- Energy / Jacopo Torriti -- Agriculture / Duncan Russel -- Enterprise and competition / David Parker -- International development / Camilla Adelle -- Diffusion across OECD countries / Fabrizio De Francesco -- Cross-national diffusion in Europe / Ioannis Lianos, Mihály Fazekas and Maksim Karliuk -- European Union / Andrea Renda -- United States of America / William F. West -- Latin America / Alketa Peci -- Australia and New Zealand / Peter G.H. Carroll -- South Korea / Tae-Yun Kim and Song-June Kim -- Developing Countries / Colin Kirkpatrick -- Implementing in the laboratory: scorecards for appraising regulatory impact assessment / Oliver Fritsch and Jonathan C. Kamkhaji -- Designing performance frameworks: the case of the OECD / Christiane Arndt and Gregory Bounds -- Implementing in the classroom: teaching regulatory impact assessment / Lorenzo Allio -- Implementing regulatory impact assessment in the real world: practitioner stories from the field / John Howell.