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January 1, 2017
It is often observed that crisis events spur new regulation. An extensive literature focuses on the role of disasters, tragedies, scandals, shocks, and other untoward events in stimulating regulatory responses (Baumgartner and Jones 1993; Percival 1998; Ku ...
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January 1, 2017
Crises punctuate our world. Their causes and consequences are woven through complex, interconnected social and technological systems. Consider these three recent events, each of which dramatically upended expectations about risk: • In the fall of 2008, the ...
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January 1, 2009
After more than a generation of deregulation and a presidential declaration that the “era of big government is over, ” the political pendulum has apparently begun to swing back toward regulation. Calls for effective government action, long subdued, have gr ...
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January 1, 2009
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As just about any observer of the American political scene over the past thirty years can attest, traditional modes of economic regulation by administrative agencies fell sharply out of favor in the United States in the quarter century after 1975. In areas ...
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January 1, 2009
As the global economy confronts its worst downturn since the Great Depression, and America begins to undertake some of the most ambitious policy initiatives since the New Deal, the country is urgently in need of fresh ideas about economic regulation. The f ...
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