Evidencing the Politics of Rulemaking: A Novel Measure of the Policy Content of Federal Regulations in Ideological Space

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Brief Overview

In this project, we locate federal regulations in the DW-NOMINATE space. This is the first project to get a measure of rules across agencies and time comparable to the preferences of the political actors that impact the rulemaking process.

Authors

• Tony Molino, University of Rochester

• Joseph A Essig, University of Rochester