Process

Agencies, policymakers, and the courts can all address the risks associated with cyberdelegation.

Automation in the administrative state could upset the relationship between people and their government.

Agencies’ uses of sophisticated information technologies highlight the possibilities of administrative automation.

New digital technologies promise improvements in government services but raise questions, too.

No rubric exists to decide how to navigate the use of automation in the administrative state, but society can make informed choices.

A federal court ruling revives questions about the insulation of independent agencies.

Economist argues that energy-efficiency regulations are riddled with problems and espouses their elimination.

Citizens and their leaders must strive to work together to solve problems and improve social and economic conditions.

From expanding the electorate to adopting online voter registration, states and localities are engaged in democracy-enhancing efforts.

Most agencies enjoy authority to aggregate cases and would benefit from doing so, but very few actually do.

Public Citizen and the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards convened panels of regulatory experts.

Experts argue that the number and cost of regulations sharply rose in 2015—at a rate that has held steady in 2016.