Structured to Fail?

Christopher Carrigan is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration at the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Administration and a scholar at the Regulatory Studies Center, both at George Washington University, Washington DC. In addition to publications in leading academic journals and edited volumes, Professor Carrigan is co-editor of Does Regulation Kill Jobs? (with Cary Coglianese and Adam M. Finkel, 2014). Professor Carrigan holds a PhD in public policy from Harvard University, Massachusetts and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

• 1. Linking regulatory failures to organizational design; Part I. Examining the Performance of Multiple-Purpose Regulators: 2. Isolated effects or widespread dysfunction?; 3. Appealing to goal ambiguity to explain performance; Part II. Assessing the Role of Regulatory Agency Design in the Gulf Oil Disaster: 4. Balancing conflict and coordination at MMS: 5. Politics and offshore oil and gas policy; Part III. A Theory of Multiple-Purpose Regulators: 6. Policy context and the political choice to combine purposes; 7. Operations, organization, politics, and policy context; Appendix A. Additional description and analyses for chapters 2 and 3; Appendix B. Mathematical context, derivations, and proofs for chapter 6.

'In skillfully presenting new theoretical and empirical findings, Christopher Carrigan persuasively challenges long-standing principles about how to organize the many regulatory authorities that oversee business behavior. This innovative book represents the most definitive treatment of the opportunities and challenges involved in structuring the missions and jurisdictions of government agencies. With careful analytical execution and often counterintuitive insight, Carrigan offers a major advance in the study of regulatory politics and public administration, with critical insights for scholars and policymakers alike.' Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania