Book review: The rise of the regulatory state of the south: infrastructure and development in emerging economies, edited by Navroz K. Dubash and Bronwen Morgan

"The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South: Infrastructure and Development in Emerging Economies." Navroz K. Dubash and Bronwen Morgan (eds.). Oxford University Press. July 2013. --- This volume seeks to explore the emergence of regulatory agencies in a range of developing countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, focusing on telecommunications, electricity, and water. The authors hope that understanding the regulatory state of the south, and particularly forms of accommodation to political pressures, could stimulate a broader conversation around the role of the regulatory state in both north and south. This book will provide valuable theoretical and empirical material to people working in economics, development, political science and law, writes Matt Birkinshaw.