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Is Consultation the New Normal?: Online Policymaking and Governance Reform in China
Governance reform has emerged as an element of the Chinese Communist Party’s development strategy in the era of the “new normal.” This article examines the implementation of online consultation, a prominent instrument of governance reform—institutionalized under Hu Jintao and championed by Xi Jinping—in which officials provide interested parties with opportunities to offer feedback on proposed public policies.
Retrospective Evaluation of Chemical Regulations
Ex-ante regulatory impact assessment has a long tradition in many OECD countries, with established analytical steps and oversight as well as opportunities for public engagement to hold governments accountable for conducting analysis before regulations are issued. But ex-ante analyses necessarily depend on unverifiable assumptions and models of how the world would look absent the regulation, and how responses to regulatory requirements will alter those conditions. This paper attempts to address the challenges to evaluating regulatory outcomes and learning from those evaluations.
Since the inception of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), considerable emphasis has been placed on the use of prospective policy analysis tools...
This paper offers a retrospective assessment of economist George Stigler’s classic article, The Theory of Economic Regulation.
