Data_Analysis

Data Analysis Field Essay: Regulatory -Making in the American States: A Review of Theories and Evidence Brian Gerber, State University of New York, Stony Brook Paul Teske, State University of New York, Stony Brook While most studies of the determinants of regulatory policy-making have concentrated on national-level issues, state-level regulatory politics represent a productive opportunity to examine the efficacy of competing theories of the regulatory process over variable political, economic, and demographic conditions. In this paper we discuss the significance of state-level regulation to broader theoretical understandings of policy-making. We review a broad set of recent empirical work in the context of three models of policy-making: principal-agent theory, Gormley's salience and complexity model, and Lowry's dimensions of federalism model. The relative effectiveness of the three approaches in explaining the dynamics of political controls or influences over state-level regulation is assessed in order to point to regulatory, policy-making, states, state-level, review, policy, model, three, theories, political, making, york, work, university, understandings, theory, theoretical, stony, state, set, salience, regulation, recent, over, new, need, models, integration, incentive-based, greater, field, federalism, explanations, evidence, empirical