Dr Julien Etienne

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

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Email: j.etienne@lse.ac.uk|

Research interests

• Regulatory compliance
• Compliance theory
• Trust and control in regulatory encounters
• Self-reporting of bad news by regulatees to regulators
• Major accident hazards
• Organizational reliability

Selected publications

Peer-reviewed

• Etienne, J. (2011) 'Complicance Theory: A Goal Framing Approach', Law & Policy, 33(3) pp.305-333.
• Etienne, J. (2010) 'Self-Reporting Untoward Events to External Controllers: Accounting for Reporting Failure by a Top Tier Chemical Plant', Discussion Paper 66, Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation.
• Etienne, J. (2010) 'Compliance Theories: a Review of the Literature', Revue Française de Science Politique, 60 (3) pp.493-518 (in French).
• Etienne, J. (2010) 'The Impact of Regulatory Policy on Individual Behaviour: a Goal Framing Theory Approach', Discussion Paper 59, ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation.
• Etienne, J. (2008) 'Knowledge Transfer in Organizational Reliability Analysis: From Post-Accident Studies to Normal Operations Studies', Safety Science, 46 (10) pp.1420-34.
• Etienne, J. (2007) 'Reorganizing Public Oversight of High-Risk Industries in France: A Reliability Analysis of Permitting', Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 15 (3) pp.144-156.

Book reviews

• Etienne, J. (2012) Book Review: Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance, by Michael E. Kraft, Mark Stephan, and Troy D. Abel, Governance, forthcoming.
• Etienne, J. (2011) Book Review: Off Center, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Revue française de science politique, vol. 61, Nb.4, pp. 773-775.

Working papers

• Etienne, J. and G. Schnyder (2011) Improving the Micro-Foundations of Actor-Centered Institutionalism

Selected projects

• Self-reporting bad news to the regulator: explaining compliance with incident disclosure rules

Selected news items

• Gave a presentation on 'Understanding the Psychology of Regulated Individuals and Organisations', at the Centre for International Parliamentary Studies, 7 July 2011, London.
• Presented with Gerhard Schnyder (King's College London) a paper entitled 'Historical Institutionalism and the Theory of Goal-Oriented Action: Towards a Behavioural Foundation for Institutionalism', at the SASE conference, 23-25 June 2011, Madrid, Spain.
• Presented a paper entitled 'Compliance Theory: a Goal Framing Approach' at the ECPR Regulation and Governance conference in Dublin on 17-19 June 2010.
• Gave a presentation on 'The Dilemmas of Risk Regulation' at the University of Geneva, Switzerland on 31 March, 2010, in the framework of the Department of Sociology's programme of public conferences.
• Gave a presentation on the topic of industrial risk and regulatory encounters at a workshop on 'The Government of the Environment', University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France, on 29 January, 2010.