Recent scholarship on regulatory oversight has focused on cost-benefit analysis of prescriptive regulations--regulations that restrict behavior such as pollution--and their use to cure market failures, and has overlooked the vast number of transfer regulations. Transfer regulations are regulations that channel funds to beneficiaries. These regulations are authorized by statutes that establish e...

This qualitative longitudinal digital diary study explores public sector creativity in practice, analysing servants’ ideas, terms of type and magnitude, what practices servants apply coming up with these ideas initially triggered their creativity. Contrasting extant research assumptions, the findings indicate that working executive agencies are creative, generating a diversity by applying range...

The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the data presented herein. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the State of California. This report does not constitute a standard, specification , or regulation. i Executive Summary Many public transit agencies in California have implemented o...

In the local government system in Vietnam, commune-level Government plays an essential role locality's socioeconomic development. Through performance of tasks and powers prescribed by law, is bridge between State people who are agencies representing to exercise state power, develop, declare, organize implementation Party's guidelines, policies State's laws people. The People's Committee commune...

When President Biden took office in January 2021, he immediately re-invigorated the United States’ commitment to addressing climate change, including adaptation, through Executive Order 13990—Protecting Public Health and Environment Restoring Science Tackle Climate Crisis (January 20, 2021) 14008—Tackling at Home Abroad 27, 2021). Federal agencies have continued implement these other climate-re...

“The effect of the Court’s actions will no doubt be to deny many plaintiffs with meritorious claims access to the federal courts and, with it, any legal redress for their injuries. . . . I think that is an especially unwelcome development at a time when, with the litigating resources of our executive-branch and administrative agencies stretched thin, the enforcement of federal antitrust, consum...

The Environment Agency (EA) is an executive nondepartmental public body that is sponsored by the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Part of EA’s remit is to safeguard the natural environment of England, protecting and improving the environment to create better places for people and wildlife. Similar Agencies perform equivalent functions in the other, dev...

This study evaluated the impact of Executive Order (EO) 12898 to advance environmental justice. We conducted a review evaluating the frequency and effective use of EO 12898 since execution with particular focus following President Obama's Plan EJ 2014. We found that both EO 12898 and Plan EJ 2104 had little, if any, impact on federal regulatory decision making. To the extent federal agencies di...

— Successful market reform projects require significant revision of government agencies, institutional arrangements, and policy-making procedures, in part, to provide reformers autonomy from countervailing pressures. This paper examines how such innovations facilitated reforms in Mexico and Argentina. It finds executive leadership helped facilitate institutional change, but that technocrat poli...