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" Despite three decades of vigorous efforts at deregulation across the government, regulation remains ubiquitous. It also continues to be unpopular because it forces individuals and businesses to do thingsfrequently costly and unpleasant thingsthat they don't want to do. If regulatory programs are to survive and remain effective, the challenge posed by their endemic unpopularity and political vulnerability must be met. Unlike much of the existing literature on regulation, Taming Regulation begins with the assumption that the government's capacity to utilize regulation as a policy tool is vital. The book examines the questions of how to make the inherently coercive aspects of regulation more politically acceptable in the present antiregulatory environment and how the legal and administrative challenges of reform in ongoing regulatory programs might best be approached. The authors explore these issues through a case study of administrative reform in the Superfund program. Chartered with an ambitious mission to clean up the nation's hazardous waste sites, Superfund was from its inception a uniquely aggressive and unpopular program. Yet despite the election in 1994 of a Republican Cong

Author

Robert T. Nakamura; Thomas W. Church

Publisher

Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815759423

Subjects

Political Science, Law, Social Science

Rating

2.67 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14