Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/340735 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Government and Economics (JGE) [ISSN:] 2667-3193 [Volume:] 14 [Article No.:] 100110 [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 1-10
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
Before 1941, U.S. regulatory bodies were unrestricted. By 1946, several states and the federal government had imposed restrictions. It further took 40 years for every state to enact an Administrative Procedures Act (APA), a law that dictates how regulatory agencies promulgate regulations. Despite being overlooked, APAs significantly impact states in often missed or ignored ways. We analyzed each state's rulemaking procedures at four different points in time to see if they've increased or decreased restrictions on regulatory agencies. We created two indexes: a Restrictiveness index, a summative index, and another derived from multiple correspondence analysis. We studied how legislative professionalism, interest group constraint, citizen ideology, and government partisanism affect APA restrictions.
Subjects: 
Administrative procedures act
Delegation
Executive Predominance
Index of Ease of Agency burden
Preference alignment theory
Restrictiveness index
JEL: 
H70
H73
H79
L51
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Document Type: 
Article

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