Regulatory breakdown : the crisis of confidence in U.S. regulation / edited by Cary Coglianese.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coglianese, Cary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade regulation--United States--Evaluation.

Trade regulation.

Trade regulation--Political aspects--United States.

Consumer protection--Political aspects--United States.

Consumer protection.

Consumer protection--Law and legislation--United States.

Independent regulatory commissions--United States--Evaluation.

Independent regulatory commissions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Crisis of confidence in United States regulation

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation brings fresh insight and analytic rigor to what has become one of the most contested domains of American domestic politics. Critics from the left blame lax regulation for the housing meltdown and financial crisis-not to mention major public health disasters ranging from the Gulf Coast oil spill to the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion. At the same time, critics on the right disparage an excessively strict and costly regulatory system for hampering economic recovery. With such polarized accounts of regulation and its performance, the nation needs now more than ever the kind of dispassionate, rigorous scholarship found in this book.With chapters written by some of the nation's foremost economists, political scientists, and legal scholars, Regulatory Breakdown brings clarity to the heated debate over regulation by dissecting the disparate causes of the current crisis as well as analyzing promising solutions to what ails the U.S. regulatory system. This volume shows policymakers, researchers, and the public why they need to question conventional wisdom about regulation-whether from the left or the right-and demonstrates the value of undertaking systematic analysis before adopting policy reforms in the wake of disaster.

Contents:

Oversight in hindsight : assessing the U.S. regulatory system in the wake of calamity / Christopher Carrigan and Cary Coglianese

Addressing catastrophic risks : disparate anatomies require tailored therapies / W. Kip Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser

Beyond belts and suspenders : promoting private risk management in offshore drilling / Lori S. Bennear

Regulation or nationalization? Lessons learned from the 2008 financial crisis / Adam J. Levitin and Susan M. Wachter

Regulating in the dark / Roberta Romano

Partisan media and attitude polarization : the case of healthcare reform / Matthew A. Baum

Citizens' perceptions and the disconnect between economics and regulatory policy / Jonathan Baron, William T. McEnroe, and Christopher Poliquin

Delay in notice and comment rulemaking : evidence of systemic regulatory breakdown? / Jason Webb Yackee and Susan Webb Yackee

The policy impact of public advice : the effects of advisory committee transparency on regulatory performance / Susan L. Moffitt

Reforming securities law enforcement : politics and money at the public, [and] private divide / William W. Bratton and Michael L. Wachter

Why aren't regulation and litigation substitutes? An examination of the capture hypothesis / Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick

Failure by obsolescence : regulatory challenges for the FDA in the twenty-first century / Theodore W. Ruger.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283898478

1283898470

9780812207491

0812207491

OCLC:

822017919