A defense of regulatory agenciesasquo; efforts to combine public consultation with bureaucratic expertise to serve the interest of all citizens
The statutory delegation of rule?making authority to the executive has recently become a source of controversy. There are guiding models, but none, Susan Rose-Ackerman claims, is a good fit with the needs of regulating in the public interest. Using a cross?national comparison of public policy-making in the United States, France, the UK, and Germany, she argues that public participation inside executive rule-making processes is necessary to preserve the legitimacy of regulatory policy-making.
