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REGULATORY POLICY ANALYSIS: WORKING IN A QUAGMIRE
Author(s) -
Dubnick Mel,
Gitelson Alan R.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-1338.1982.tb00446.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , public administration , regulatory reform , policy analysis , political science , public economics , government regulation , public policy , regional science , economics , sociology , law , philosophy , linguistics , china
The authors review five “definitions‐in‐use” that characterize regulatory policymaking and policy analysis. They survey these contradictory meanings and argue that the common use of all five has adversely affected efforts to reform and study government regulation.