Regulatorna reforma, kao dio reforme javnoga sektora, odnosi se na promjenu načina uporabe regulacije kao policy-instrumenta. S obzirom na to da je započela s ciljem olakšavanja djelovanja poslovnom sektoru pojednostavljenjem regulatornog sustava da
bi se postigla što veća konkurentnost na globalnom tržištu, i danas ima mnoge oponente koji kritiziraju njezinu neoliberalnu pozadinu. Ovim se radom želi pokazati kako je regulatorna reforma “nadrasla” svoju prvotnu svrhu stoga što se njezin doseg proširio i na
neekonomske policy-sektore – na konstitutivne politike. Takav širi interpretacijski okvir ciljeva regulatorne reforme omogućuje pristup regulatornom procesu mnogo većem broju aktera, a posebice neekonomskim interesnim skupinama, te se koristi regulatorne reforme raspodjeljuju na šire slojeve zajednice. Posljedica otvaranja regulatornoga procesa jest mogućnost utjecaja i drugih sustava vrijednosti, konkurentnih neoliberalizmu, na regulatornu
reformu. Rad posebice naglašava pristup javnoga upravljanja (governance) istraživanju regulatorne reforme kao onaj kojim se mogu prikazati i analizirati njezini navedeni pozitivni aspekti. Osnovna je teza članka da regulatorna reforma kao specifičan normativni koncept, ako je shvaćena kroz širi interpretacijski okvir, potiče razvoj konstitutivnih politika u smislu da ih postavlja na više mjesto ljestvice policy-prioriteta regulatorne države,te da upravo to treba biti dominantna logika njezina uvođenja.Regulatory reform, as part of public sector reform, concerns the change of the way of using regulation as a policy instrument. Since it started for the purpose of facilitating the operation of the business sector through simplifying the regulatory system in order to achieve increased competitiveness in the global market, it still has many opponents criticising its neoliberal background. This paper seeks to show how the regulatory reform programme has “transcended” its primary purpose because its reach has expanded even to noneconomic policy sectors – constitutive policies. Such broader interpretational framework of the objectives of regulatory reform allows access to the regulatory process for a much greater number of actors, particularly for noneconomic interest groups, and the benefits of the regulatory reform programme have spread among the
broader ranks of the community. The implication of opening the regulatory process is an opportunity for other value systems, competing with neoliberalism, to affect regulatory reform. The paper especially emphasizes the governance approach to the research on
regulatory reform, as the one which can outline and analyse its above-mentioned positive aspects. The essential thesis of the paper is that regulatory reform, as a specific normative concept, if understood within a broader interpretational framework, stimulates the development of constitutive policies in the sense that it places them higher on the policy priority scale of a regulatory state, and that this is exactly what should be the dominant logic of its introduction
