The role of research in support of regulatory decisions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Gail Neven
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Decisions

The Role of the Discount Rate in Cost–Benefit Analysis Between Theory and Practice: A Comparative Survey

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Felice Simonelli
Keyword(s):  
Discount Rate ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Benefit Analysis ◽  
Economic Literature ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Regulatory Decisions

This study focuses on the role of the discount rate in cost–benefit analysis (CBA) of regulation, providing a systematic investigation into regulatory practice vis–à–vis the existing economic theories. In the first part, a quick survey of the main economic literature on the social discount rate (SDR) is presented. In the second part, the current institutional practice is investigated, firstly comparing the recommendations on discounting issued by institutional actors in the US (Office of Management Budget, Environmental Protection Agency) and the EU (Commission), and secondly examining the SDRs adopted in two samples of CBAs selected among Regulatory Impact Analyses of US EPA and Impact Assessments of EU Directorate–General for the Environment. A gap exists between economic theory and institutional practice in the selection of the SDR. Regulatory decisions which are based on CBA reflect the most workable economic literature on discounting rather than the most theoretically consistent one, thus yielding less reliable and less robust results. Scholars who aim at improving the quality of rule–making and at fostering the application of CBA in regulatory decisions should improve the “operational validity” of their research, thus providing practitioners with methods that are both consistent and workable.

Ethics, Law and Information Technology

2000 ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Brian M. O’Connell
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Regulatory Decisions ◽  
Ethics Law

Following a brief consideration of the role of rhetoric in law, science and policy, this chapter explores how rhetorical accounts of new technologies influence the course of legislative, judicial and regulatory decisions. It proposes that such themes have the powerful capacity to determine outcomes and to shape modern concepts of individual as well as societal freedoms and rights.

Transcriptional coregulator RIP140: an essential regulator of physiology

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. R147-R158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaya Nautiyal
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Receptors ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Reproductive Axis ◽  
Transcriptional Coregulators ◽  
Transcriptional Coregulator ◽  
Gene Regulatory ◽  
Drive Gene ◽  
Regulatory Decisions ◽  
Regulatory Sites

Transcriptional coregulators drive gene regulatory decisions in the transcriptional space. Although transcription factors including all nuclear receptors provide a docking platform for coregulators to bind, these proteins bring enzymatic capabilities to the gene regulatory sites. RIP140 is a transcriptional coregulator essential for several physiological processes, and aberrations in its function may lead to diseased states. Unlike several other coregulators that are known either for their coactivating or corepressing roles, in gene regulation, RIP140 is capable of acting both as a coactivator and a corepressor. The role of RIP140 in female reproductive axis and recent findings of its role in carcinogenesis and adipose biology have been summarised.

Populism Curtailed? Globalization and the Debate over Genetically Modified Organisms in the European Union

Populism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-183
Author(s):  
Shane Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Genetically Modified Organisms ◽  
Plant Biotechnology ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Regulatory Decisions ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Gm Soybean ◽  
The Eu

Abstract While the role of globalization in constituting the rise of populist movements has been increasingly recognized, the ways in which globalization can, in fact, curtail populism is also worthy of analytical attention. This is exemplified in the EU debate over plant biotechnology where a couple of exceptions to the largely anticorporate populist mobilization against transgenic crops include the political positioning of EU farmers in favor of GM soybean imports and the posturing of environmental groups and beekeepers against the labeling of GM contaminated honey. Interrogating these cases, the paper attributes mobilization/policy outcomes to the ways in which global food-consumption patterns, supermarket branding initiatives, and regulatory decisions intermingled with the sociomaterial dynamics of particular locales to constitute decision-making landscapes that made populist policies (un)fathomable. In engaging with the globalism-populism nexus in this manner, the paper imparts lessons on how globalization and the populist outcomes associated with it can be honed and reoriented.

Improving the Guardrails

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-210
Author(s):  
Michael A. Livermore ◽  
Richard L. Revesz
Keyword(s):  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Regulatory Review ◽  
Regulatory Decision ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Regulatory Decisions ◽  
Ex Post Analysis ◽  
Trump Administration

Future administration can begin undoing the mistakes of the Trump administration by reinstating prior norms concerning cost-benefit analysis and meaningful regulatory review. Several reforms can go even further and improve the regulatory system. One reform involves rethinking the role of ex-post analysis of regulation, to focus resources on identifying and addressing cross-cutting areas of uncertainty in regulatory decision making. A second area where improvements can be made is improving the quantification of costs and benefits that are currently left unquantified. A third area for improvement involves developing general guidelines for examining and weighing the distributional effects of regulatory decisions.

scholarly journals The changing role of animal toxicology in support of regulatory decisions.

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 169-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
F J Miller ◽  
J A Graham ◽  
D E Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Decisions ◽  
Changing Role

Stakeholder Participation and Strategy in Rulemaking: A Comparative Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deserai A. Crow ◽  
Elizabeth A. Albright ◽  
Elizabeth A. Koebele
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
State Level ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Environmental Advocacy ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Final Rule ◽  
Agency Rulemaking ◽  
Regulatory Decisions

Integrating a diversity of stakeholder voices in policymaking processes can lead to more legitimate and widely supported laws and rules. While most attention to stakeholder participation in public decision processes has focused on legislative policymaking or the role of industry stakeholders in regulatory processes, strategic choices about participation by non-industry stakeholders in rulemaking remains largely overlooked, particularly at the state level. Previous research shows that agency rulemaking processes often provide greater procedural access to industry actors, who may significantly influence final rule content by bringing greater technical knowledge to bear on rulemaking processes. Less is understood about the strategies used by non-industry stakeholders, such as environmental advocacy groups, to influence regulatory decisions. This study, which compares environmental rulemaking processes across three issues in five states, finds that industry actors and environmental advocacy groups both use a variety of participation strategies classically thought to be “insider” and “outsider” strategies, and that these choices are motivated by reasons other than the perceived effectiveness of the strategy within the formal rulemaking process.

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