Opinion

Toward a New Approach to Regulating Higher Education

Toward a New Approach to Regulating Higher Education

A strengthened management-based regime could be combined with a lessening of unnecessary and unhelpful “command and control.”

President Obama’s College Rating Proposal

President Obama’s College Rating Proposal

The college rating controversy reveals the challenges of a performance-based approach to regulating higher education.

Management-Based Regulation of Higher Education

Management-Based Regulation of Higher Education

Regulation of higher education has long been “management-based”—and under attack for being ineffectual.

Types of Regulation

Types of Regulation

Those seeking to reform the regulation of higher education must understand the available tools.

Learning from the “College Rating System” Debate

Learning from the “College Rating System” Debate

The Obama Administration’s failed effort to establish a rating system holds implications for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.

New Regulation Could Actually Reduce Access to Investment Advice

New Regulation Could Actually Reduce Access to Investment Advice

Study highlights the potential value of professional investment advice—and the cost of curbing access to it.

Rulemaking’s Puzzles

Rulemaking’s Puzzles

Study explains increase in regulation despite supposed rulemaking ossification.

Better Policy Analysis Makes for a Better World

Better Policy Analysis Makes for a Better World

Combining better analysis with more meaningful participation will improve policy decisions.

How Money Transmitter Regulations are Changing with the Market

How Money Transmitter Regulations are Changing with the Market

Bond expert analyzes impact of recent developments in state money transmitter regulation.

Solving the FBI-Apple Dispute

Solving the FBI-Apple Dispute

Apple-FBI dispute highlights the value of improving law enforcement’s technical capacity.

What Will Come from the Supreme Court’s Stay of EPA’s Clean Power Plan?

What Will Come from the Supreme Court’s Stay of EPA’s Clean Power Plan?

Scholar argues the impact of halting the regulation’s implementation may be small.

A Price of Greater Executive Discretion

A Price of Greater Executive Discretion

Scholar responds to University of Pennsylvania’s executive discretion series by highlighting transparency concerns.