Agency Compliance with the “Guidance Executive Order”
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What are People Saying About COVID-19-Related Regulations?
Government agencies have taken various regulatory actions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. What are people saying about these regulatory responses? Which ones have prompted the most discussion? And, most importantly, which regulations should be most urgently addressed?
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) released its semiannual Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The Agenda lists all regulatory actions currently being developed by federal agencies.
Parsing a Pair of Two-track Regulatory Actions: Part Two
This second part will look at two actions affecting compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Nudging the Nudger: Toward a Choice Architecture for Regulators
Behavioral research has shown that individuals do not always behave in ways that match textbook definitions of rationality but are subject to cognitive biases that may lead to systematic errors in judgments and decisions.
The Social Media Executive Order and the FCC
Trump's executive order on social media instructs the Secretary of Commerce to petition the FCC for a rulemaking to address viewpoint-based speech restrictions.
This article compares government transparency and public participation in policymaking across China and the United States. The analysis specifically focuses on the notice and comment process—government announcement of proposed policies and solicitation of public feedback—at the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOC) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).