Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules: Multilevel Regulatory Governance, G. Bruce Doern and Robert Johnson, eds., Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, xi, 372.

The first stated purpose of this edited collection is to “clarify conceptually the nature, causes, and dynamics of regulatory governance in, or affecting, Canada” in a world where the international, federal, provincial and local spheres are “interacting, reinforcing and colliding.” The second is to “contribute practically to the debate on what kinds of principles and institutional approaches and changes can lessen the problems of multilevel regulatory governance” (3).