Escaping the “Regulatory State”: The Case of the Peruvian Tertiary Education Regulations
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This article deals with the regulation of tertiary education in Peru in the context of the pervasiveness of “regulatory state” within liberal democracies. The regulation of Peruvian tertiary education is a great example of the perils of the “regulatory state”. After a decade of “reform”, now Peruvians have less competition, higher prices, and less access to education, with not objective sight of quality improvement. First, the “regulatory state” is presented. How has it born and why is ever-growing? It argues that it is a product of very different processes: an economy distancing from free market or economic planning and welfare policies. Second, alternatives to reduce the number of regulations is presented, from the most obvious to some paradigm changers. None of these alternatives suffices. In a third -conceptual- part, the author presents the case of the Peruvian regulation of tertiary education -in which the state controls half of the offer-, the author concludes that actually strengthening the role of the state will reduce the pressure to regulate. In this sense, a model closer to the Nordic model -in which the components of a mixed type of mixed economy are more distinct in the sense that they intervene heavily when decide to intervene but keep a free-market economy as a general background- is a best way to escape the ubiquity quality of the regulatory state.
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