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- Title
Historical perspective and better regulatory governance: An agenda for institutional reform.
- Authors
Balleisen, Edward J.; Brake, Elizabeth K.
- Abstract
Compared to economics, sociology, political science, and law, the discipline of history has had a limited role in the wide-ranging efforts to reconsider strategies of regulatory governance, especially inside regulatory institutions. This article explores how more sustained historical perspective might improve regulatory decisionmaking. We first survey how a set of American regulatory agencies currently rely on historical research and analysis, whether for the purposes of public relations or as a means of supporting policymaking. We then consider how regulatory agencies might draw on history more self-consciously, more strategically, and to greater effect. Three areas stand out in this regard - the use of history to improve understanding of institutional culture; reliance on historical analysis to test the empirical plausibility of conceptual models that make assumptions about the likelihood of potential economic outcomes; and integration of historical research methods into program and policy evaluation.
- Subjects
ECONOMIC reform; SOCIOLOGY; GOVERNMENT agencies; ECONOMIC policy; CORPORATE culture
- Publication
Regulation & Governance, 2014, Vol 8, Issue 2, p222
- ISSN
1748-5983
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/rego.12000