Law and regulation [[electronic resource] ] : scenarios for the information age / / B.M.J. van Klink, J.E.J. Prins

• Autore: Klink Bart van
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Washington, DC, : IOS Press; Tokyo, : Ohmsha, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Disciplina: 343.49209/944
• Soggetto topico: Information services - Law and legislation - Netherlands; Information superhighway - Law and legislation - Netherlands; Information technology - Government policy - Netherlands
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: PrinsC (Corien)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-137).
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1. ICT and the Law""; ""2. Questions and Challenges""; ""2.1 Legal Consequences""; ""2.2 Questions""; ""2.2.1 Familiar Concepts and Pretexts""; ""2.2.2 Familiar Positions""; ""2.3 Challenges""; ""2.4 Conceptual Deficiency""; ""3. Directions of Approach""; ""3.1 Solutions Based on Practical Experience""; ""3.2 Dimensions of Law and Technology""; ""3.3 Private Instruments of Control""; ""3.3.1 Technology as a Substitute for Regulation""; ""3.3.2 The Contract""; ""3.3.3 Intermediaries and their Instruments"" ; ""3.4 Privatisation of Standaridisation""""4. The Role of the Government in the Information Society""; ""4.1 Adverse Effects on the Normative Basis""; ""4.2 Images of Government Intervention""; ""4.2.1 The Government as a Roadmender""; ""4.2.2 The Government as a Traffic Policeman""; ""4.2.3 The Government as a Planner""; ""4.2.4 The Government as a Driver on the Wrong Side of the Road""; ""4.3 The Legitimacy of Government Intervention""; ""4.3.1 The Trias Politica""; ""4.3.2 Fundamental Rights""; ""4.3.3 Democracy and Citizenship""; ""4.4 Conclusion""; ""5. A Communicative Approach"" ; ""5.1 The Primacy of the Legislator""""5.2 The Government as a Communicating Planner""; ""5.3 Re-evaluation of the Primacy of the Legislator""; ""6. Balance""; ""6.1 Conclusions""; ""6.2 Suggestions for Further Research""; ""7. Summary""; ""Bibliography""
• Sommario/riassunto: This study gives an in-depth analysis of scenarios for government intervention in the information age. In doing so, it addresses the legal questions and challenges arising in a borderless virtual world. The authors elaborate on regulatory solutions found in day-to-day practice, that is, relatively independently of state regulation (by means of technological facilities, private contracts, and intermediary organisations). Subsequently, it is shown how governments and more in particular the Dutch government, deal with the various legal challenges, such as the question whether national governments
• Titolo autorizzato: Law and regulation
• ISBN: 600-00-0472-9; 9786610505562; 1-280-50556-7; 1-60129-442-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455982203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Informatization developments and the public sector ; ; 7.