Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rise of the regulatory state of the south / Navroz K. Dubash and Bronwen Morgan -- Global water governance and the rise of the constitutional regulatory state in Columbia / René Urueña -- Understanding the Egyptian regulatory state : independent regulators in theory and practice / Ahmed Badran -- Bureaucratic resistance to regulatory reforms : contrasting experiences in electricity and telecommunications in Brazil / Mariana Mota Prado -- Regulating through the back door : understanding the implications of institutional transfer / Navroz K. Dubash -- The regulatory state under stress : economic shocks and regulatory bargaining in the Argentine electricity and water sectors / Alison E. Post and M. Victoria Murillo -- Judiciaries as crucial actors in regulatory systems of the global south : the Indian judiciary and telecom regulation (1991-2012) / Arun K. Thiruvengadam and Piyush Joshi -- Regulatory mobilization and service delivery at the edge of the regulatory state / Nai Rui Chng -- Regulatory state with dirigiste characteristics : variegated pathways of regulatory governance / Kanishka Jayasuriya -- Institutional challenges to the regulatory state in the developing world / Jacint Jordana -- The peripheral regulatory state / Michael W. Dowdle -- The regulatory state goes south in the south / Lant Pritchett -- The regulatory state and the developmental state : towards polymorphic comparative capitalism / David Levi-Faur -- Institutional development and the regulatory state of the south / Roselyn Hsueh -- Roles of law in the regulatory states of the south / Benedict Kingsbury and Megan Donaldson -- Civil society and the regulatory state of the south / Kathryn Hochstetler -- The embedded regulatory state : between rules and deals / Navroz K. Dubash and Bronwen Morgan.