Industry Canada's Spectrum Management Consultations: Democratic Participation or Regulatory Capture

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Pintos, Lilian
  • Mowatt, Brandy
  • McNally, Michael B.

• This paper examines Industry Canada consultations on spectrum management from 2008-2012. Using post-revisionist regulatory theory, the paper aims to examine the degree of regulatory capture at Industry Canada. It provides a brief statistical analysis of the consultations and examines two case studies. The authors conclude that regardless of the level of regulatory capture at Industry Canada, greater academic and media scrutiny of the consultations is required to reduce slack that creates the possibility for capture.

• Date created

  2013-08-19

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Industry Canada
  • Telecommunications policy
  • Spectrum managment
  • 2008-2012

• Type of Item

  Conference/Workshop Presentation

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3GJ5M

• License

  Attribution 3.0 International