Regulatory politics in an age of polarization and drift : beyond deregulation / Marc Allen Eisner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisner, Marc Allen, author.

Contributor:

Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial policy--United States--History.

Industrial policy.

Deregulation.

History.

United States.

Deregulation--United States--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

Regulatory change is typically understood as a response to significant crises like the Great Depression, or salient events that focus public attention, like Earth Day 1970. Without discounting the importance of these kinds of events, change often assumes more gradual and less visible forms. But how do we "see" change, and what institutions and processes are behind it? In this book, author Marc Allen Eisner brings these questions to bear on the analysis of regulatory change, walking the reader through a clear-eyed and careful examination of: the dynamics of regulatory change since the 1970s, social regulation and institutional design, forms of gradual change-including conversion, layering, and drift, gridlock, polarization, and the privatization of regulation, financial collapse and the anatomy of regulatory failure, Demonstrating that transparency and accountability-the hallmarks of public regulation-are increasingly absent, and that deregulation was but one factor in our most recent significant financial collapse, the Great Recession, this book urges readers to look beyond deregulation and consider the broader political implications for our current system of voluntary participation in regulatory programs and the proliferation of public-private partnerships. This book provides an accessible introduction to the complex topic of regulatory politics, ideal for upper-level and graduate courses on regulation, government and business, bureaucratic politics, and public policy. Book jacket.

Contents:

A tale of two crises

Making sense of regulatory change

Competing approaches to institutional design

Costs, benefits, and battles over the regulatory state

Polarization, gridlock, and regulatory drift

Environmental protection and the persistence of partnerships

Workplace safety and the return of the voluntary regulator

Deepwater drift and the disaster in the gulf

Regulating the wrong things and the financial crisis

Beyond deregulation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781138183421

1138183423

9781138183438

1138183431

OCLC:

965445364