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Why Do Politicians Pursue Regulatory Reforms?


Why Do Politicians Pursue Regulatory Reforms?

Regulatory reforms are popular with legislators not because they actually change much or greatly help the economy, but because they are as an excellent way to ...

Why Regulatory Reform? - Cato Institute

But regulatory reform is a way to seemingly respond to poor economic conditions by attacking regulation without bearing the political costs of doing so. By the ...

The Politics of Regulatory Reform

Congress is currently considering more than a dozen regulatory reform bills that would modify the procedures by which executive branch ...

Regulatory reform - OECD

Effective laws and regulations are a vital tool for any policymaker - whether they are seeking to grow the economy, protect the environment or improve ...

Reforming Regulation - Center for American Progress

Political scientists and legal scholars call this problem capture. Regulatory capture exists when regulation is consistently directed toward the ...

Chapter I. The Role of Economic Analysis in Regulatory Reform

Regulation can be used to protect consumers by regulating prices charged by natural monopolies or preventing firms from restricting competition through mergers, ...

Regulatory Reform - American Legislative Exchange Council

Legislative oversight and democratic accountability are critical components of sound regulatory systems. Regulations should always be simple and transparent.

Congress & Regulatory Reform: Achievements and Prospects

Finally, as Pietro Nivola observes elsewhere in this issue, it is important to recognize a fundamental bipartisan appeal of policy making via regulation: it ...

Evaluating Regulatory Reforms: Lessons for Future Reforms

Over the decades, regulatory reforms have sought to increase agency accountability and improve the quality of regulatory analysis and ...

A Blueprint for "Regulatory Democracy": Empowering the Public in ...

The changes that White House officials make, however, are often motivated by political factors that agencies are legally prohibited from ...

Regulatory Reform That Restores Government Of, By, and For the ...

Long-term reform of how America handles and reviews regulations would not only help our economy, but has the potential to reduce government corruption and ...

Regulatory Reform Priorities: A Current List - EPIC for America

This would ensure Congress and the public would have more reliable, reviewable economic analysis on new rules, including those of independent ...

The Politics Of Regulatory Reform - Forbes

They would also raise revenue that the government can use to reduce other taxes or employ to improve the infrastructure of financial markets or ...

The politics of regulation: Four dominant perspectives

In such situations, regulators (or their political principals) would often and frequently be exposed to opposing targets and not by supporting ...

The ironic politics of regulatory reform - Brookings Institution

Given the very real possibility of coming electoral difficulties, conservatives may view the courts as their most durable power center in coming ...

Rewiring Regulation: Regulatory Review for a New Political Economy

But for many of the reforms discussed below, the impact is more long-term and subtle. These reforms change the ways in which policies are ...

The Politics of Regulatory Reform - 1st Edition - Stuart Shapiro - Deb

Why do politicians enact laws that require regulations and then try to hamper agencies abilities to issue those same regulations? The authors answer these ...

Government Regulation - The Policy Circle

Given how long it would take any person to read and understand hundreds of thousands of pages of regulations that implement our laws, strategies for reform are ...

Politicization of Regulatory Agencies: Between Partisan Influence ...

In that sense, no agency can ever be fully independent from the political sphere. Yet, formal independence still creates obstacles that make it more difficult ...

The Progressive Movement and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1890-1920s

... pursue foreign policy goals. The most ... Still others argued that foreign ventures would detract from much-needed domestic political and social reforms.