Expanding Regulatory Pluralism: The Role for Information Technology in Rulemaking

Digital Government and E-Rulemaking: New Directions for Technology and Regulation

Each year hundreds of federal regulatory agencies issue more than 4,000 new regulations. Before adopting a new regulation, agencies must publish a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register and allow an opportunity for the public to comment on the proposed rule. They also need to complete scientific, engineering, and economic analyses, as well as respond to comments submitted by outs...

Discussing the Rules: Electronic Rulemaking and Democratic Deliberation

Of all recent efforts to transform the federal bureaucracy through the use of information technology, electronic rulemaking holds the most potential for enhancing the role of the public in policymaking. In its more expansive formulation, electronic rulemaking would allow citizens to learn about proposed regulations on the Web, comment on them electronically, read comments by others, and even di...

Weak Democracy, Strong Information: The Role of Information Technology in the Rulemaking Process

Unequal Partners: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Executive Review of Regulations

Editors’ Summary: This Article addresses the potentially conflicting roles played by the Office of Management and Budget in overseeing agencies’ rulemaking: analyzing rules using cost-benefit analysis and exercising executive control of rulemaking. The author argues that the Office of Information and Regulatory Affair’s role as the eyes and ears of the president in overseeing regulatory agencie...

Organization, Process, and Agency Rulemaking

Organizational theorists and economists have long understood that structuring internal work processes into more hierarchical or team-based arrangements has important consequences for the timeliness and character of organizational outputs. We apply these insights to demonstrate how variation in the design of rulemaking procedures inside regulatory agencies impacts the resulting rules. Employing ...