Regulatory Breakdown : : The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation / / ed. by Cary Coglianese.

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• MitwirkendeR: Baron, Jonathan,; Baum, Matthew A.,; Bennear, Lori S.,; Bratton, William W.,; Carrigan, Christopher,; Coglianese, Cary,; Helland, Eric,; Klick, Jonathan,; Levitin, Adam J.,; McEnroe, William T.,; Moffitt, Susan L.,; Poliquin, Christopher,; Romano, Roberta,; Ruger, Theodore W.,; Viscusi, W. Kip,; Wachter, Michael L.,; Wachter, Susan M.,; Webb Yackee, Jason,; Webb Yackee, Susan,; Zeckhauser, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Coglianese, Cary,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 24 illus.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Oversight in Hindsight -- Chapter 2. Addressing Catastrophic Risks -- Chapter 3. Beyond Belts and Suspenders -- Chapter 4. Regulation or Nationalization? -- Chapter 5. Regulating in the Dark -- Chapter 6. Partisan Media and Attitude Polarization -- Chapter 7. Citizens' Perceptions and the Disconnect Between Economics and Regulatory Policy -- Chapter 8. Delay in Notice and Comment Rulemaking -- Chapter 9. The Policy Impact of Public Advice -- Chapter 10. Reforming Securities Law Enforcement -- Chapter 11. Why Aren't Regulation and Litigation Substitutes? -- Chapter 12. Failure by Obsolescence -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments