The importance of being modern: international benchmarking and national regulatory innovation

Abstract

Martin Lodge* * Lecturer in Political Science and Public Policy, Department of Government, and ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London , WC2A 2AE , UK Phone: 020 7849 4627 E-mail: M.Lodge@lse.ac.uk Abstract Benchmarking and peer reviews have been identified as increasingly influential in a number of policy arenas. Little is known, however, about the interaction between international and national levels and its effects. This paper explores such processes in one of the ‘original’ settings of these governance types – the OECD's reviews of a country's regulatory policies in the case of Ireland. Based on the limited results in the Irish example, it is argued that the supposed effects of peer reviews and benchmarking require such high system requirements at the national level that they are unlikely to facilitate the innovation of national regulatory policies according to international ‘best practice’ standards.

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