1st Edition

Regulatory Politics in an Age of Polarization and Drift Beyond Deregulation

By Marc Allen Eisner Copyright 2017
306 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

About the Author

Dedication

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Chapter One: A Tale of Two Crises

Chapter Two: Making Sense of Regulatory Change

Chapter Three: Competing Approaches to Institutional Design

Chapter Four: Costs, Benefits, and Battles over the Regulatory State

Chapter Five: Polarization, Gridlock, and Regulatory Drift

Chapter Six: Environmental Protection and the Persistence of Partnerships

Chapter Seven: Workplace Safety and the Return of the Voluntary Regulator

Chapter Eight: Deepwater Drift and the Disaster in the Gulf

Chapter Nine: Regulating the Wrong Things and the Financial Crisis

Chapter Ten: Beyond Deregulation

Notes

Index

Biography

Marc Allen Eisner is Dean of the Social Sciences, Henry Merritt Wriston Chair of Public Policy, and Professor of Government at Wesleyan University, USA. He is the author of several books, most recently The American Political Economy, 2e (Routledge, 2014, named CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title) and (with James Gosling) Economics, Politics, and American Public Policy, 2e (Routledge, 2013).