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Despite a growing literature in economics and political science on explanations for the existence of regulation, little work has focused on how regulatory agencies translate broad legislative mandates into specific rules. Administrative law provides most of the literature on this subject, but as these studies rely upon case studies of one, or at most a few agency decisions, it is difficult and potentially misleading to draw general conclusions about rulemaking behavior from them. Both to explain agency behavior and to devise more credible reforms of the porcess, we need a unified theory of agency rulemaking behavior.
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Krupnick, A.J., Magat, W.A., Harrington, W. (1983). Revealed Rules for Regulatory Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of EPA Rulemaking Behavior. In: Downing, P.B., Hanf, K. (eds) International Comparisons in Implementing Pollution Laws. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1927-8_4
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