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Measuring Cross-Sectorial Law Enforcement Capacity of Regulatory Agencies in Hungary
Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
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Measuring Cross-Sectorial Law Enforcement Capacity of Regulatory Agencies in Hungary
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GAJDUSCHEK, György; Associate Professor, Department for Public Managementand Policy, Faculty of Economics, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Sciences Institutefor Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,Budapest, Hungary |
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law enforcement, regulatory agency, agency capacity, Central and Eastern Europe, law and economics.
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The paper analyses the effectiveness of law enforcement by regulatory agencies in Hungary. Empirical data were collected from such diverse felds as consumer rights protection, construc-tion, road safety, labor regulation, etc. The data were analyzed using a simplifed rational choice model, looking for evidence of whether adminis-trative practices were effective in preventing ra-tional actors from breaking the law. The analysis robustly proves the ineffectiveness of regulatory activity, as the breaking of laws may yield, in a conservative estimate, 10 to 100,000 times more income than the expected monetary value of the fne. In brief, the government of Hungary is gen-erally unable to enforce its own laws. Though the paper makes use of data solely from Hungary, it aims to provide a methodology for measuring regulatory capacity more generally.
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Babes Bolyai University
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2015-02-15
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/428
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Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2015: Issue No. 44 E/February; 108-125
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eng
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http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/428/418
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Copyright (c) 2015 Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences
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