Multi-sited fieldwork in regulatory studies

Abstract

Studying regulation, as the other chapters in this book attest, can be a complicated process. The previous chapter provides guidelines regarding the theoretical and methodological concerns that we as researchers should consider critically before conducting research on regulation. It emphasises the importance of studying objective concerns, such as regulatory enforcement and whether or not actors comply, alongside subjective ones, such as the meanings attributed to regulation as influenced by participants’ world views. This chapter acknowledges those important considerations, but focuses on the particular concern of accounting for the transnational dimensions of regulation. While both objective and subjective concerns inform regulation