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Regulation-Making: The Creative Opportunities Of The Inevitable, Harry W. Arthurs
Regulation-Making: The Creative Opportunities Of The Inevitable, Harry W. Arthurs
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The lawmaking process has diffused substantially in the past years, resulting in an increasing maze of departmental subordinate legislation. This phenomenon has not been accompanied by a parallel development of controls resulting in complaints about "bureaucracy", red-tape, inaccessability, and poor draftsmanship, and in demands for review and control. Professor Arthurs recognizes the practical inevitability of the system, but discusses the present situation critically, suggesting reforms which might help to make the regulatory process more compatible with "participatory democracy".