The Administrative State and the Optimal Abuse of Power
A state built to prevent all abuses of power would perform poorly.
Can Moneyball Make States Better Regulators?
Scholars say state and local regulators should embrace the federal model of cost-benefit analysis.
An Independent Commission Should Suggest, Not Determine, Rule Rescissions
Proposed regulatory review commissions would circumvent procedural safeguards.
The Real “Tsunami” in Federal Regulatory Policy
New lookback programs impede public safeguards rather than improve the regulatory system.
A Politically and Technically Feasible Approach for Handling Regulatory Accumulation
A new institutional design is required to deal with retrospective review of regulations.
Congressional Action Needed to Deal with Regulatory Accumulation
The SCRUB Act would help correct regulatory accumulation – but the bill could be improved.
It’s Past Time to Address Regulatory Duplication
The SCRUB Act would help eliminate duplicative rules through retrospective review.
Debating the Independent Retrospective Review of Regulations
The Regulatory Review features the debate over an independent process for reviewing existing rules.
Regulatory Transparency Should be a Two-Way Street
OSHA deserves praise for asking commenters submitting scientific information to disclose their funding sources.
More Whistleblowers Help Regulators Detect Misconduct
Financial regulators in the U.S. and U.K. receive a growing number of alerts from whistleblowers.
The False Dichotomy of Agency Independence
Different agency design choices result in a continuum of independence.
How Should We Judge Agencies’ Decisions “Not to Decide?”
Working paper says agencies have broad, but cabined, discretion to delay and defer.