Reinventing Rationality

• Introduction; Part I. The Clash of Regulatory Cultures: 1. The evolution of the regulatory analysis programme; 2. Rational decision-making as regulatory reform; 3. Case studies of regulatory analysis in the decision-making process; Part II. The Virtues and Limitations of Analysis: 4. Virtues of regulatory analysis; 5. Limitations of regulatory analysis; 6. Regulatory analysis in the real world; Part III. Structuring Regulatory Analysis into the Decision-Making Process: 7. Roles for the regulatory analyst; 8. The hierarchical model; 9. The outside advisor model; 10. The team model; 11. The adversarial model; 12. A hybrid model; 13. Selecting the right model; Part IV: Review of Regulatory Analysis: 14. Office of management and budget review of regulatory analysis; 15. Judicial review of regulatory analysis; Part V. Conclusions: 16. The appropriate role for analysis in the modern regulatory state.

"It should be important background reading....has much to recommend it from an international, descriptive, and perhaps even prescriptive standpoint....well written and should be interesting background material on the current status of regulatory analysis in U.S. government." B. Dan Wood, source???