Inspection Practices of the Past and Future

In today’s increasingly complex and constraining institutional and fiscal environments, the regulatory state seems to be under mounting pressure to accommodate new techniques, types of analysis, and technologies. But even in accommodating innovations in new technologies or institutional arrangements, most predictions about the future of regulation are fundamentally familiar: They envision incremental changes, such as specialization within fields or the delegation of existing tasks. Accordingly, one of regulation’s most recognizable—if uncelebrated—features will almost certainly take a preeminent role in the administration of the future: the practice of inspection. We should be careful in assuming, though, that future inspection practices will be so familiar. On the contrary, the role of inspections within the history of bureaucratization and regulation suggests that even in relatively stable legal or institutional environments, systemic changes in the…

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