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.
A Glimpse of President Trump’s Deregulatory "Agenda"
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget released its biannual Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The Unified Agenda, which law requires to be published once in the spring and once in the fall, provides the public with a first glimpse at upcoming regulations.
Missing Offsets: EPA and DOE Rules May not Comply with One-in-Two-out Executive Order
Agencies have managed to publish two significant rules in recent weeks without mentioning the requirements of EO 13771.
Bureaucracy & Democracy: Accountability & Performance
In this book, we focus on bureaucratic accountability and performance. We aim to lay out just how bureaucracy is accountable, as well as to whom, under what circumstances, and with what results. In presenting these issues, we draw on insights from four prominent social scientific theories—bounded rationality, principal-agent theory, interest group mobilization, and network theory.
Private Sector Solutions for an Outdated Government Website
A report on Regulations.gov details several of the platform’s outdated elements, and proposes the use of private sector innovations to fix these issues.
