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The article offers the author's insights on regulatory reform. The author mentions research trajectory and agenda in the field of political scientists including Alessia Damonte, Claire A. Dunlop, and Claudio M. Radaelli and highlights their impact on social sciences. The author discusses the learning theory and models of the scientists in public policy analysis which connects with regulatory culture and humility.

Donald Schön's assertion that becoming an effective professional requires more than technical rationality underpins the pedagogy of Masters in Public Administration (MPA) programmes. This article explores how public administrators can be taught to think reflectively and reflexively about the limits of control in the context of decision making and regulatory policy appraisal. It reports on an in-class pedagogical experiment on illusions of control used to generate a real-life experience of the cognitive and emotional dimensions of control. By doing so, the article introduces the concept of 'regulatory humility' and contributes to the literature on experiments as pedagogical tools, and to debates on teaching methods in public administration and political science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]