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作者：Wiener, Jonathan B.
作者单位：Duke University; Duke University
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作者：Ellig, Jerry; McLaughlin, Patrick A.; Morrall, John F., III
作者单位：George Mason University
摘要：This paper compares the quality and use of regulatory analysis accompanying economically significant regulations proposed by US executive branch agencies in 2008, 2009, and 2010. We find that the quality of regulatory analysis is generally low, but varies widely. Budget regulations, which define how the federal government will spend money or collect revenues, have much lower-quality analysis than other regulations. The Bush administration's midnight regulations finalized between Election Day a...
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作者：Rothstein, Henry; Borraz, Olivier; Huber, Michael
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); University of Bielefeld
摘要：Risk-based approaches to governance are widely promoted as universally applicable foundations for improving the quality, efficiency, and rationality of governance across policy domains. Premised on the idea that governance cannot eliminate all adverse outcomes, these approaches provide a method for establishing priorities and allocating scarce resources, and, in so doing, rationalise the limits of what governance interventions can, and should, achieve. Yet cursory observation suggests that ris...
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作者：Kelemen, R. Daniel
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
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作者：Hanretty, Chris; Koop, Christel
作者单位：University of East Anglia; University of London; King's College London
摘要：Regulation by independent agencies, rather than ministries, is believed to result in better policy outcomes. Yet this belief requires one to accept a complex causal chain leading from formal independence to actual independence from politics, to policy decisions, and, ultimately, to policy outcomes. In this study, we analyze the link between the formal and actual independence of regulatory agencies in Western Europe. New data on the appointment of chief executives of these agencies is used to c...
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作者：Krieger, Kristian
作者单位：University of London; King's College London
摘要：Risk-based governance is argued by many to hold the promise of a more rational and efficient state, by making explicit the limitations of state interventions and focusing finite resources on those targets where probable damage is greatest. This paper challenges the assumption that risk-based governance has the potential for universal and uniform application, by comparing contemporary flood management in Germany and England. On first inspection, flooding appears to be a paradigmatic case of ris...
