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On regulatory authority: Insights from durkheim
Author(s) -
Powers Charles H.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198504)21:2<124::aid-jhbs2300210204>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - division of labour , regulatory authority , task (project management) , division (mathematics) , law and economics , economics , sociology , political science , law , management , public administration , arithmetic , mathematics
Émile Durkheim is recognized for his analysis of horizontal division of labor (that is, task specialization differentiating de jure equals). Vertical differences can also develop with structural differentiation, often taking the form of authority vested in regulatory agencies. But according to Durkheim, the conditions sufficient to produce specialized division of labor are not sufficient in themselves to produce regulatory structures. New regulatory agencies tend to emerge in environments characterized by directly attributable cost interdependence among a plethora of otherwise independent units.