The past three decades have brought remarkable change in American regulatory politics. The re-emergence of public interest movements in the sixties and seventie

"Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the g

Regulatory change is typically understood as a response to significant crises like the Great Depression, or salient events that focus public attention, like Ear

These changes, together with the general advance in the study of regulation, undoubtedly demand a re-evaluation of the theory of regulation, its methodologies a

In Regulatory Politics in Transition Marc Eisner argues that to understand fully the importance of regulatory policy we need to survey the critical policy shift