Regulatory Politics in Transition

by Marc Allen Eisner

Overview

In Regulatory Politics in Transition Marc Eisner argues that to understand fully the importance of regulatory policy we need to survey the critical policy shifts brought about during the Progressive period, the New Deal, and the contemporary period. Eisner adopts a regulatory regime framework to address the combination of policy change and institutional innovation across multiple policies in each period.

For each of these periods Eisner examines economic structural changes and the prevailing political economic and administrative theories that conditioned the design of new policies and institutions. Throughout, Eisner adds a valuable historical dimension to the discussion of regulation, by showing how policies and institutions were shaped by particular historical and political circumstances. The new edition examines how the efficiency regime of the 1980s found a new expression in the regulatory reinvention during the Clinton presidency. Moreover, it explores the impact of globalization trends and international regimes upon the politics of regulation and asks whether a new global regime is on the horizon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801864926
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	10/13/2000
Series:	Interpreting American Politics
Edition description:	second edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Marc Allen Eisner is a professor of government at Wesleyan University.

Editorial Reviews

A comprehensive and readable history of regulatory politics in the United States. It will be an excellent supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, and it also provides much perspective for scholars. The field needs such a book . . . Superb.
--Paul Teske, Policy Currents

The major strength of Regulatory Politics in Transition is that it systematically assesses a defining element of the modern American state, namely, regulatory policy . . . I suspect that many of us interested in the history of regulation or business-government relations will be cribbing lectures from [this book].
--Richard A. Harris, American Political Science Review

From the Publisher

A comprehensive and readable history of regulatory politics in the United States. It will be an excellent supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, and it also provides much perspective for scholars. The field needs such a book . . . Superb.

Policy Currents - Paul Teske

The major strength of Regulatory Politics in Transition is that it systematically assesses a defining element of the modern American state, namely, regulatory policy . . . I suspect that many of us interested in the history of regulation or business-government relations will be cribbing lectures from [this book].

American Political Science Review - Richard A. Harris

A comprehensive and readable history of regulatory politics in the United States. It will be an excellent supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, and it also provides much perspective for scholars. The field needs such a book... Superb.

— Paul Teske

Policy Currents

The major strength of Regulatory Politics in Transition is that it systematically assesses a defining element of the modern American state, namely, regulatory policy... I suspect that many of us interested in the history of regulation or business-government relations will be cribbing lectures from [this book].

— Richard A. Harris

American Political Science Review

Eisner (government, Wesleyan U.) argues that to understand regulatory policy one must first survey the policy shifts brought about during the Progressive period, the New Deal, and the contemporary period. He adopts a regulatory regime framework to address the combination of policy changes and institutional innovation across multiple policies in each period. For each period, Eisner examines economic structural changes and the prevailing political economic and administrative theories that conditioned the design of new policies and institutions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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