Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12354
Title: Private regulation, public policy, and the perils of adverse ontological selection
Authors: Janina Grabs
Graeme Auld
Benjamin William Cashore 
Keywords: critical review
ontological influence
private regulatory governance
public policy
public–private interaction
Issue Date: 29-Oct-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Citation: Janina Grabs, Graeme Auld, Benjamin William Cashore (2021-10-29). Private regulation, public policy, and the perils of adverse ontological selection. Regulation & Governance 15 (4) : 1183-1208. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12354
Abstract: What problems can private regulatory governance solve, and what role should public policy play? Despite access to the same empirical evidence, the current scholarship on private governance offers widely divergent answers to these questions. Through a critical review, this paper details five ontologically distinct academic logics – calculated strategic behavior; learning and experimentalist processes; political institutionalism; global value chain and convention theory; and neo-Gramscian accounts – that offer divergent conclusions based on the particular facets of private governance they illuminate, while ignoring those they obfuscate. In this crowded marketplace of ideas, scholars and practitioners are in danger of adverse ontological selection whereby certain approaches and insights are systematically ignored and certain problem conceptions are prioritized over others. As a corrective, we encourage scholars to make their assumptions explicit, and occasionally switch between logics, to better understand private governance's problem-solving potential and its interactions with public policy.
Source Title: Regulation & Governance
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/216878
ISSN: 1748-5983
DOI: 10.1111/rego.12354
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