Regulatory politics in an age of polarization and drift: beyond deregulation

Regulatory change is typically understood as a response to significant crises like the Great Depression, or salient events that focus public attention, like Earth Day 1970.

Without discounting the importance of these kinds of events, change often assumes more gradual and less visible forms.

But how do we 'see' change, and what institutions and processes are behind it?

In this book, author Marc Eisner brings these questions to bear on the analysis of regulatory change, walking the reader through a clear-eyed and careful examination of the dynamics of regulatory change since the 1970s social regulation and institutional design forms of gradual changes.