Review of Regulatory Capture Theory

The main characteristics of the development of regulatory capture in recent years are discussed here. It is pointed out that the study on regulatory capture is a kind of interdisciplinary research, and then is a new energetic field developed by crossing and syncretizing the regulatory capture with many related disciplines such as management, law, political science and sociology; in which the connotations, developments and trends of company political strategy, regulation legal form and economic theory, special interest groups, social capital of regulation are expatiated. It is indicated that the refinements of these disciplines imply the profound understanding of the human being on the regulatory capture. The interdiscipline will definitely follow the principles of the integrity and ultimately develop toward the establishment of the comprehensive theories for the regulatory capture.