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Integrating employment effects into regulatory impact analysis could improve the public debate on regulation.

New bill would empower an independent commission to force agencies to eliminate or amend rules.

International accounting firms remain stuck between Chinese and U.S. law.

Many regulations fail to demonstrate a need for agency action.

Agencies can improve both regulatory analysis and decision-making by establishing internal review capacity.

Public access to regulations takes center stage at congressional hearing.

Voter ignorance bolsters arguments for judicial review and limited government.

Experts ask if super-storms require new approaches to risk regulation, insurance, and disaster management.

Data from recent rulemakings do not show that OIRA review systematically lowers estimated benefits and increases estimated costs.

Robert A. Kagan provides his own perspective on major influences and broad themes underpinning his research.

Kagan’s agenda favors professionalism as the key alternative to hyper-adversarial contestation.

Robert A. Kagan’s research is a quest to understand legal authority and how it works in the world.