Problem
Over-regulation
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Counter-productive restrictive regulationsIll-considered regulatory restrictions
Excessive regulatory burden
Unnecessarily heavy-handed regulation
Petty regulations
Bureaucratic red tape
Unnecessarily inhibiting regulations
Nature:
Regulations are seductive to governments because they can meet political pressures without taxing and spending. The costs are borne by the private sector and do not show up on the Government's balance sheet.
Incidence:
A riddle put to the UK government to show the unaccounted for indirect effects of regulation was "How can you spend more money on rail safety and increase transport deaths?" The answer: You do it by requiring one of the safest forms of transport – rail – to spend £200 million every year on safety measures after some comparatively rare accident. Fares are raised to cover the cost, driving people onto the roads, which are five times more dangerous. In 1993, action on the UK's Deregulation Bill began dismantling some of the 3,500 regulations that the UK business sector are required to observe, including "passports" for cows and sheep.
Narrower Problems:
Restrictive land ordinancesRestrictive social policiesComplex government regulationsRestrictive logging regulationsExcessive regulation of televisionEconomically inefficient regulationsRestrictive regulations for trainingRestrictions against small enterpriseRestrictive building codes in urban areasRestrictive regulations for disposal of nuclear waste Related Problems:
Inadequacy of international standards Aggravates:
Legal absurditiesAdministrative delaysDiscriminatory imposition of standardsRestrictive agreements on product standardsFailure to conform to international health standardsExcessive customs and trade formalities Strategies:
Increasing government regulationsIncreasing government regulationsEnforcing regulationsCondemning petty regulationsForcing participation in social processesRestricting through regulations Subject(s):
Medicine → PathologySocietal Problems → Restrictions
Law → Regulation
Management → Administration
Economics → Productivity
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
23.11.2017 – 19:41 CET