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Article: Regulation, Organizations, and Politics: Motor Freight Policy and the Interstate Commerce Commission.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
- Author:
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The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was the first independent federal regulatory commission. Although now facing possible extinction, for a century, the ICC was the model for most of the economic regulatory bodies that were created by both state and federal government. The ICC also has been important to social scientists, being the subject of countless scholarly books and articles. The consensus scholarly view is that the ICC illustrates an unfortunate pathology of regulation - capture by special interests fin this case, the trucking industry).
Because published research on the ICC is so extensive and includes some of the best and most respected scholarship on ...