The politics of global regulation / edited by Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In whose benefit? Explaining regulatory change in global politics / Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods -- The governance triangle : regulatory standards institutions and the shadow of the state / Kenneth W. Abbott and Duncan Snidal -- Filling a hole in global financial governance? The politics of regulating sovereign debt restructuring / Eric Helleiner -- From state responsibility to individual criminal accountability : a new regulatory model for core human rights violations / Kathryn Sikkink -- The private regulation of global corporate conduct / David Vogel -- Racing to the top ... at last : the regulation of safety in shipping / Samuel Barrows -- Regulatory shift : the rise of judicial liberalization at the WTO / Judith L. Goldstein and RIchard H. Steinberg.

"Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level ... This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or 'regulatory capture' happens, and how it can be averted."--Page [iv] of cover.