Commentary on Jim Tozzi, “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Past, Present, and Future”

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Christopher DeMuth
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Regulatory Affairs ◽  
Administrative Effectiveness ◽  
Federal Civil Service

Jim Tozzi is an activist institutional economist. During his 19-year career in the federal civil service, he was a pertinacious institution builder, armed with a PhD in economics but never flaunting it. He gained a reputation, richly deserved in my experience, as a supreme bureaucratic tactician. But he applied his skills to antibureaucratic purposes. Incessantly, and occasionally at professional risk, he promoted and protected internal executive-branch procedures that used economic analysis, and measures of administrative effectiveness, against the incessant forces of political entropy, agency parochialism, and special-interest capture.

Regulatory Process, Regulatory Reform, and the Quality of Regulatory Impact Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Ellig ◽  
Rosemarie Fike
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Regulatory Reform ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Regulatory Process ◽  
Quality Analysis ◽  
Regulatory Affairs ◽  
Regulatory Impact Analysis ◽  
Regulatory Impact

Numerous regulatory reform proposals would require federal agencies to conduct more thorough economic analysis of proposed regulations or expand the resources and influence of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which currently reviews executive branch regulations. Such reforms are intended to improve the quality of economic analysis agencies produce when they issue major regulations. We employ newly gathered data on variation in current administrative procedures to assess the likely effects of proposed regulatory process reforms on the quality of agencies’ regulatory impact analyses (RIAs). Our results suggest that greater use of advance notices of proposed rulemakings for major regulations, advance consultation with regulated entities, use of advisory committees, and expansion of OIRA’s resources and role would improve the quality of RIAs. They also suggest pre-proposal public meetings with stakeholders are associated with lower quality analysis.

Policy analysis in the Chamber of Deputies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Velazquez Lopez Velarde
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Rubber Stamp ◽  
Lower Chamber ◽  
Legislative Policy ◽  
Mexican Congress ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

Until the 1990s, the Mexican Congress functioned as a rubber-stamp institution whose main function was the approval of the presidents’ bills. The subordination of Congress to the executive branch produced, among other effects, the hindering of legislative policy analysis. Since government agencies had control over the policy process, it was not necessary for legislators neither to become policy specialists nor to invest resources and time in the development of professional staffs that could carry out policy analysis on diverse areas. However, as the process of democratization advanced, legislators started to create research centers and established civil service systems in order to professionalize the staff that supports legislative work. This chapter provides an assessment of the congressional policy analysis carried out in Mexico by focusing on the lower chamber (Chamber of Deputies) of the federal Congress. It argues that research centres and legislative committees perform three types of policy analysis. The limited functioning of the civil service system, the politicization of legislative staff, and low salaries are the main factors that undermine the quality of policy analysis in the Chamber of Deputies.

scholarly journals Civil Service Recruitment: Problems Connected With Federal Character Policy in Nigeria

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Jude Abiodun Akinwale
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
National Policy ◽  
State Representation ◽  
National Integration ◽  
Federal Civil Service ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent of relevance of the federal character as a national policy in recruitment into the Nigerian federal civil service and probe whether or not the level of application of merit supersedes the application of ecological considerations in recruitment into the service. It utilizes quantitative and qualitative data collection to espouse its theme. The paper finds that there are personnel problems connected with poor application of federal character policy in recruitment into the civil service and this affects the quality of entrants. It recommends strict application of merit standard to attract best workers while implementing federal character policy through proven certification of state of applicants. The paper notes that the Nigerian federal character policy is one that places premium on state representation in governance and bureaucracy and a strategy for national integration. However, there must be predominant application of merit in recruitment.

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