The processes determining regulatory impacts are increasingly centered within firms and industries themselves, and in the working relationships among private and public actors. This article examines two aspects of this issue: (a) the effects of economic interdependence on the social control of industry and (b) the emergence and behavior of regulatory professions within the private sector and their collaboration with public regulatory counterparts. We consider how these forces have influenced private regulation in the United States securities industry.
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