Regulating the Regulators: An Introduction to the Legislative Oversight of Administrative Rulemaking

by James R. Bowers

Increasingly, state regulations are implemented and exercised by the administrative discretion of state bureaucracies. This increased rulemaking activity threatens to rival, or even replace, state legislatures as the principal source of new laws emanating from state government. To combat this, state legislatures now routinely seek to regain their preeminence as lawmakers by overseeing administrative rulemaking authority. This oversight is frequently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275933547
• ISBN13: 9780275933548
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"