Considering the highly dynamic political environment in Europe
today, it is interesting to imagine how European collective structures
might unfold in the years to come. The two most successful of
these structures are the European Union and NATO, and clearly a
key figure in both of these...
From the secular, Western perspective, acts of terror committed in
the name of Islam are very difficult to understand. Explanations
for these acts concentrate almost exclusively on economic, social,
and political factors. This article critiques the various approaches
used to explain the...
Congress enacted the Congressional Review Act (CRA) on March 29, 1996 as part of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) in an effort to increase its oversight of federal agency rulemaking. The CRA includes several parliamentary mechanisms, explained below, that enable...
Although spending on U.S. regulatory programs has doubled in the last 20 years, that trend is unlikely to last. How these programs manage budget cuts will determine whether downsizing harms or helps regulatory performance. Leaders of regulatory agencies must avoid satisfying tighter budgets with...
The legacy of the federal government's Empowerment
Zone initiative is contested. The evidence undergirding the initiative's
legacy, however, is based primarily on models that estimate national effects.
We use an alternative evaluation strategy that places greater emphasis on
local Empowerment...
Walter E. Fauntroy became Washington, DC’s first non-voting representative in
Congress on March 23, 1971. Washingtonians had been without self-government for nearly a
century, so as the district’s first Congressman, Fauntroy pushed for home rule legislation,
overpowering opponents by...
Greater accountability at regulatory agencies is desirable because (1) the public has a right to know how government affects society and (2) greater accountability improves agency performance. As described in the previous Insight in this series, the United States attempted eight major...
President-elect Trump committed to “a requirement that for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations need to be eliminated” or what could be called a “two-for-one” requirement. The implementation of such a regulatory “pay as you go” process raises a number of issues including: what...
To accomplish his promised overhaul of the U.S. regulatory system, President Trump will need the help of a small office that most people outside of Washington have never heard of. The Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA, pronounced Oh-Eye-Ruh), established in 1980, oversees the...
Policymakers in the United States show persistent interest in improving the accountability of federal regulatory agencies. Before mandating further requirements, Congress and the President should (1) identify government-wide accountability initiatives that were already attempted at regulatory...
In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, the American Psychological Association has identified politics as a workplace issue on which little organizational research has been done to date. The current study helps fill this gap by examining the effects of employees' perceived...
President-elect Trump has promised to “reform the entire regulatory code to ensure that we keep jobs and wealth in America.”To that end, scholars at the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center offer a list of 10 reforms to regulatory processes that could be accomplished through...
Since the formation of the U.S. federal regulatory system, regulations have had a significant influence on marketplace competition. Regulations often seek to improve competition by restraining monopolies; others tend to reduce competition by establishing one-size-fits-all standards for consumer...
English Romantic reception of King Lear is an important part of Shakespeare's
afterlife. This book investigates Anglo-American post-Romanticist readings
and appropriations of Lear as a seminal text on the relationship between
literature and politics, specifically succession as a philosophical...
Political marketing is now an established modus operandi in politics, especially in America, the cradle of the study and development of marketing in general. However, it has not yet reached the levels of sophistication seen in the corporate world, but rather copied superficial techniques. It is...
Within the health policy, political, and legal communities, the term "individual mandate" refers to a requirement on individuals to purchase healthcare insurance. This policy mechanism is meant to coerce healthy and young individuals who have the means to purchase coverage to do so, in an attempt...
There are unique forces at play that drive and sustain women in leadership roles in the East: In the case of Aung San Suu Kyi these have been the qualities of fearlessness, forgiveness, an ability to live in the paradox between her sense of traditional duty and social unconventionalities and her...
Broadly concerned with the causes of the American Civil War, this dissertation explores the role of Northern Democrats in the political crises of the 1850s and the fragmentation of the national Democratic Party in the antebellum era. State and local politics are key, and connections are made...
My research topic concerns gender diversity on political teams that leverage big data and analytics on campaigns. Data show women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. As technology continues to advance, big data play an increasing role on political...