Oversight in hindsight: assessing the U.S. regulatory system in the wake of calamity / Christopher Carrigan and Cary Coglianese -- Addressing catastrophic risks -- disparate anatomies require tailored therapies / W. Kip Viscusi and Richard Zeckhauser -- Beyond belts and suspenders -- promoting private risk management in offshore drilling / Lori S. Bennear -- Regulation or nationalization? -- lessons learned from the 2008 financial crisis / Adam J. Levitin and Susan M. Wachter -- Regulating in the dark / Roberta Romano -- Partisan media and attitude polarization -- the case of healthcare reform / Matthew A. Baum -- Citizens' perceptions and the disconnect between economics and regulatory policy / Jonathan Baron, William T. McEnroe, and Christopher Poliquin -- Delay in notice and comment rulemaking -- evidence of systemic regulatory breakdown? / Jason Webb Yackee and Susan Webb Yackee -- The policy impact of public advice -- the effects of advisory committee transparency on regulatory performance / Susan L. Moffitt -- Reforming securities law enforcement -- politics and money at the public/private divide / William W. Bratton and Michael L. Wachter -- Why aren't regulation and litigation substitutes? -- an examination of the capture hypothesis / Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick
Summary
With chapters written by some of the nation's foremost economists, political scientists, and legal scholars, Regulatory Breakdown brings clarity to the heated debate over regulation by dissecting the disparate causes of the current crisis as well as analyzing the most promising solutions to what ails the U.S. regulatory system
