Abstract
Regulatory Administration and Organizational Rigidity
Highlights
GOVERNMENT regulation of the private sector has long been a source of considerable controversy in American politics
NOTE : An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 1976 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 29 - May 1, 1976, Pick Congress Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
Bernstein notes that the aging process occurs at varying rates in different agencies. If this is true, using the theory of Downs and others, we would postulate that the rate of aging is related to several environmental variables such as political support, interest group strength, and complexity of the policy area
Summary
In the regulatory context the problem of private versus public power may be seen as one of designating the beneficiaries of regulation, that is, who is regulation intended to benefit, and who does it benefit? While the question of who benefits is not fully settled,[3] the dominant perspective holds that regulation has been for the benefit of the regulated and not for the consuming public Critics who perceive this as a distortion of public policy goals attribute this outcome to the domination of regulatory agencies by the regulated interests. If regulation entails some deleterious second-order consequences or is not effectively performing its assigned tasks, the first step in reform is not the abolition of the regulatory agencies but an examination of the reasons for failure
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