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rulemaking remains an elemental part of our government system. contains the most current scholarship on a crucial yet understudied subject.New to the Fifth Edition
List of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Chapter 1: The Substance of Rules and the Reasons for Rulemaking
The Definition of Rulemaking
The History of Rulemaking
Categories of Rules
The Reasons for Rulemaking: What It Has to Offer
Chapter 2: The Process of Rulemaking
Process and Substance
The Core Elements of Rulemaking: Information, Participation, Accountability
Information: Increased Legal Requirements
Participation: Expanded Opportunities Mandated by Law
Mechanisms of Accountability
How the APA Model Has Changed
Exceptions, Exemptions, and Evasions
The Stages of Rulemaking
Chapter 3: Issues and Contradictions
The Volume of Rulemaking
Quality and Consequences
Timeliness
Participation
Bureaucratic Discretion
The Effects of Rulemaking
Inseparable Issues
Chapter 4: The Management of Rulemaking
Presidential Management
Management on the Agency Level
Managing Individual Rules
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Participation in Rulemaking
The Purposes of Participation
The Origins and History of Participation
Actual Patterns of Participation
Does Participation Matter?
Chapter 6: Oversight of Rulemaking
Accountability and Congress
Accountability to the President
Accountability to the Courts
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Rulemaking: Theory and Reform
The Value of Theory
Elements of Rulemaking Theory
The Reform of Rulemaking
Appendix: Titles and Chapters in the Code of Federal Regulations
Index
About the Authors
About the author
Cornelius M. Kerwin is currently the provost of American University and a professor of public adminstration in American University′s School of Public Affairs. Dr. Kerwin served as the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) for the 1998-1999 term.
Additionally, he worked as a consultant for several organizations, including
the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Scott R. Furlong is provost/vice president for academic
affairs at the State University of New York at Oswego as
of July 2017, after serving ten years as dean of the College
of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and professor
of political science and public affairs at the University of
Wisconsin–Green Bay. His areas of expertise are regulatory
policy and interest group participation in the executive
branch, and he has taught public policy for over twenty
years. He is the author or coauthor of many book chapters
and coauthor of Rulemaking: How Government Agencies
Write Laws and Make Policy, 5th ed. (2019), with Cornelius
M. Kerwin. His articles have appeared in such journals as Public Administration Review, Journal
of Public Administration Research and Theory, Administration and Society, American Review of
Public Administration, and Policy Studies Journal.
