Benefits of a Rowdy Bureaucracy
Professor Andrew Rudalevige's book introduces us to a core idea: the executive branch matters to executive orders.
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What’s the Status of the Biden Administration’s Workplace Vaccine Mandate?
The workplace vaccine mandate faces steep legal and practical challenges, but the president’s announcement may still help drive up vaccination rates.
Notice and Comment Policymaking in China
This commentary examines how the notice and comment process in Guangzhou has changed.
The notice and comment process is a prominent governance reform in contemporary China.
OIRA the Angel; OIRA the Devil
In their most recent book, Reviving Rationality, Mike Livermore and Ricky Revesz build on their record of support for the use of analytical tools, particularly cost-benefit analysis, to evaluate rules prior to their issuance.
Skipping Notice and Comment Over Time
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs makes regulatory review data on interim-final rules easily accessible. Analyzing interim-final rules that have gone through regulatory review over time can shed light on the success of agency efforts to bypass the notice-and-comment process.
A Midyear Review of Regulatory Sentiment and Uncertainty
This commentary provides a midyear review highlighting patterns in the news-based measures of regulatory sentiment and uncertainty during the past months of 2021. Regulatory sentiment reached a historically high point in May, and regulatory uncertainty rose in July.
Distributional Language in Regulatory Executive Orders
To achieve the goals outlined in Biden's Modernizing Regulatory Review Memorandum, federal agencies will likely build on the distributional language of the executive orders highlighted in this commentary.