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Author Harris, Richard A., 1951-

Title The politics of regulatory change : a tale of two agencies / Richard A. Harris, Sidney M. Milkis.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  342.066 H243p 1996    ---  Available
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xii, 418 p. ; 21 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-406) and index.
Contents Regulation, deregulation, and the administrative state -- The politics of regulatory change -- The new social regulation -- The regulatory program of the Reagan administration -- The Federal Trade Commission, consumer protection and regulatory change -- Regulation and deregulation at the Environmental Protection Agency -- Regulatory relief: to be or not to be? -- Janet Steiger's Federal Trade Commission: the limited possibilities of consensus politics -- The EPA under George Bush -- Conclusion: social reform and divided democracy: the future of regulatory politics
Summary The past three decades have brought remarkable change in American regulatory politics. The re-emergence of public interest movements in the sixties and seventies raised fundamental questions about our market economy and dramatically expanded the government's regulatory role in the protection of public health, the consumer, and the environment. The far-reaching effects of this new regulatory regime in turn precipitated a counter-movement to restrict social and economic regulation spearheaded by the Reagan administration. In their first edition of The Politics of Regulatory Change. Richard Harris and Sidney Milkis assessed the long-term consequences of the Reagan administration's attempt to drastically curtail social regulation through an in-depth study of how two of the most influential regulatory agencies, the Federal Trade Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency, were affected by administration reforms.
Now with their second edition, Harris and Milkis continue their assessment, creating completely revised edition that includes coverage of the changes in regulatory politics during the Bush and Clinton administrations. They conclude that the essential elements of the 'public lobby regime' remain intact, even as the successive deregulatory assaults on that regime in the 1980's and 1990's have polarized Washington not simply over public policy but more fundamentally over the just ends of the American political system.
Subject Administrative procedure -- United States.
Trade regulation -- United States.
Added Author Milkis, Sidney M.
ISBN 0195081919 (acid-free paper)
9780195081916 (acid-free paper)

 
    
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