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- Title
Revolving door laws and state public utility commissioners.
- Authors
Law, Marc T.; Long, Cheryl X.
- Abstract
This paper investigates the effects of revolving door regulations - laws that restrict the post-government employment opportunities of public sector workers - on the characteristics of state public utility commissioners. We find that commissioners from states with revolving door regulations have less expertise, serve shorter terms, and are less likely to be subsequently employed by the private sector, compared with their counterparts from states without revolving door laws. These findings suggest that revolving door regulations may have costly unintended consequences.
- Subjects
REVOLVING doors; PUBLIC service commissions; PUBLIC sector; EMPLOYMENT; ECONOMIC policy; EMPLOYEES
- Publication
Regulation & Governance, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 4, p405
- ISSN
1748-5983
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1748-5991.2011.01119.x