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Fall Unified Agenda outlines Progress of "Two-for-One" Reforms

In addition to the Unified Agenda, OIRA released a status report on implementation of President Trump’s two-for-one regulatory requirement.

Leave Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication to Innovators, Not Regulators

Nixing a plan to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology in new vehicles may be the right call for technological progress and innovation.

President Trump’s Regulatory Budget Evaluated By Brookings

Report shows that regulators are subject to public choice incentives

Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises

Policy Shock examines how policy-makers in industrialized democracies respond to major crises. After the immediate challenges of disaster management, crises often reveal new evidence or frame new normative perspectives that drive reforms designed to prevent future events of a similar magnitude.

A Review of "Structured to Fail? Regulatory Performance under Competing Mandates"

In his new book, Structured to Fail? Regulatory Performance under Competing Mandates, Christopher Carrigan tackles a critical question for regulatory scholars and practitioners alike: how does organizational design matter for regulatory agency behavior and performance? To answer it, Carrigan employs a diverse combination of research methods including statistical analysis, case study, and theoretical modeling.

Federal Agency Rulemaking across Administrations

New metrics help analyze regulatory output

CPSC Hearing on Safety Standard Addressing Blade-Contact Injuries on Table Saws

Thank you to the Commission for the opportunity to present on the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC’s) proposed performance standards for table saws. We are Sofie E. Miller and Jacob Yarborough of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center.