The politics of regulation: From new institutionalism to new governance

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 14, Issue , 2011, Pages 107-129

  Carrigan, Christopher ^a,c   Coglianese, Cary ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bureaucracy; enforcement; implementation; policy making; political control

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955963528     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.032408.171344     Document Type: Article

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