Regulation and the Reagan Era: Politics, Bureaucracy and the Public Interest

by Roger E. Meiners and Bruce Yandle

Was the so-called "Reagan Revolution" a disappointment regarding the federal systems of special-interest regulation? Many of that administration's friends as well as its opponents think so. But under what criteria? To what extent? And why? When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the popular belief was that the size of government would be cut and that some of the regulatory excesses of the prior decade would be rolled back. However, the growth of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945999704
• ISBN13: 9780945999706
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Independent Institute
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"