Article: Speed bumps and roadblocks: procedural controls and regulatory change. (Articles).(Statistical Data Included)

Have attempts by politicians to control bureaucratic action led to an abandonment of the rule-making process? Do these controls allow enacting coalitions of politicians to control future bureaucratic decision making? This study is an attempt to relate the effectiveness of the rule-making process to political controls on the bureaucracies that create regulations. In this article I will consider eight case studies of state regulation of child care. These case studies cast doubt on the assertions that political controls play a prominent role in bureaucratic decision making.

Academic attention to rule making and other bureaucratic decisions has focused on the ...

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