Archive for August, 2015
Controlling the Cumulative Cost of Regulations
Aug 27th
Regulatory Budget: Optimal Delegation Theory Justification
A Calendar of Current Events CRE on ABA Conference Quality of Life Review
Information Collection and Regulatory Budgets
Announcement of the establishment of a website dedicated to the implementation of a regulatory budget, public comments welcome below.
Editor’s Note: The myriad of proposed legislation to control the expansion of the regulatory state fall short in one major aspect–even if enacted in total the cumulative costs of complying with the ever ending flow of regulations will increase. The articles in this precedent setting forum are the initial steps to address this issue.
Asimow: On Pressing McNollgast to the Limits: The Problem Of Regulatory Costs
Aug 18th
Recent scholarship by Mathew D. McCubbins, Roger G. Noll, and Barry R. Weingast,1 and by Arthur Lupia and McCubbins,2 sheds new light on animportant administrative law subject: the rationale for and the utility of the procedures that an administrative agency must follow in order to adopt rules.According to the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), an agency must give public notice of a proposed rule and allow any interested person to providewritten comments on that rule.3 The agency must also supply a concise statement of the basis and purpose of a rule when it is adopted.’ A final rule must be published in the Federal Register,5 and its effective date must be delayed until thirty days after publication.
Haeder Yackee: Influence and the Administrative Process:
Aug 13th
haeder and yackee 2015 influence and the administrative process
All administrative processes contain points of entry for politics, and the U.S. president’s use of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to review government regulations is no exception. Specifically, OMB review can open up a pathway for interest groups to lobby for policy change. We theorize that interest group lobbying can be influential during OMB review, especially when there is consensus across groups.We use a selection model to test our argument with more than 1,500 regulations written by federal agencies that were subjected to OMB review. We find that lobbying is associated with change during OMB review. We also demonstrate that, when only business groups lobby, we are more likely to see rule change; however, the same is not true for public interest groups. We supplement these results with illustrative examples suggesting that interest groups can, at times, use OMB review to influence the content of legally binding government regulations.
A Student Primer on the Federal Rulemaking Process
Aug 12th
The Reg Map: Informal Rulemaking
The Federal Rulemaking Process: An Overview
A Guide to Judicial and Political Review of Federal Agencies
A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking
Administrative Law for Public Managers
Federal Service and the Constitution: The Development of the Public Employment Relationship
Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector
Time Line of the Regulatory Process (Potomac Institute)
On Matters of OIRA Governance the OIRA Teaching Module is Home Plate
Aug 12th
Heretofore, OIRA was virtually an unknown organization. However most recently in books written about the regulatory state it is appearing with an increasing frequency. For example, Mr. Charles Murray in a book By the People-Rebuilding Liberty without Permission states:
For rules that are deemed to be “significant”—in the Obama administration so far, about 20 percent of the total—the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), part of the Office of Management and Budget, will get involved in the process.[ 4 ] OIRA acts as a coordinator with other agencies, provides additional input, mediates disagreements, and is a conduit for the White House’s position on proposed regulations.
The Presence of the Public Policy Community
Aug 11th
Throughout this Forum we have discussed the importance of expanding the stakeholders in centralized regulatory review from the legal community to the public policy, political science and public administration committees. The following reference works highlight the important contribution the non-legal communities can make to the improvement of centralized regulatory review.
- Administrative Law for Public Managers
- Federal Service and the Constitution: The Development of the Public Employment Relationship
- Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector
Professor West on Centralized Regulatory Review
Aug 11th
Downloaded from the London School of Economics Website
More than 2.5 million people work across the entire executive branch of the US government in hundreds of agencies and commissions. William West takes an in-depth look at how the President is able to oversee this vast bureaucracy. He writes that centralized influence over agency policy making is mostly reactive and based around the practice of regulatory review. He argues that Presidents lack the organizational capacity to monitor and influence what agencies do in more than a selective way, and that this reactive strategy allows the White House to focus its limited resources on agency initiatives that are problematic while ignoring the majority that are not.
Archives: Interviews with Key Regulators
Aug 7th
Jim Tozzi Views On Centralized Regulatory Review
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Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum and National Archives and Records Administration, An Oral History Interview with JAMES J. TOZZI.
Energy Crisis Interviews: James J. Tozzi
Confronting America’s First Energy Crisis
- Richard Nixon Foundation, National Archives, Center for Strategic and International Studies, (Ambassador Richard Fairbanks; James R. Schlesinger; and James J. Tozzi)
OIRA Reference Library
Aug 6th
It must be noted that there is too much material on the family of CRE websites to file all of it in categorical folders. Consequently in addition to examining the contents of the following folders and those elsewhere on the OIRA Teaching Module it is recommend that users also utilize the following search mechanism: CRE Global Search