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The past three decades have brought remarkable change in American regulatory politics. The re-emergence of public interest movements in the sixties and seventies raised fundamental questions about our market economy and dramatically expanded the government's regulatory role in the protection of public health, the consumer, and the environment. The far-reaching effects of this new regulatory regime in turn precipitated a counter-movement to restrict social and economic regulation spearheaded by the Reagan administration. In their first edition of The Politics of Regulatory Change, Richard Harris and Sidney Milkis assessed the long-term consequences of the Reagan administration's attempt to drastically curtail social regulation through an in-depth study of how two of the most influential regulatory agencies, the Federal Trade Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency, were affected by administration reforms. Now with their second edition, Harris and Milkis continue their assessment, creating a completely revised edition that includes coverage of the changes in regulatory politics during the Bush and Clinton administrations. They conclude that the essential elements of the 'public lobby regime' remain intact, even as the successive deregulatory assaults on that regime in the 1980's and 1990's have polarized Washington not simply over public policy but more fundamentally over the just ends of the American political system.

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In probing the politics of regulatory change, Harris and Milkis have dug deeply, and not only into their two case studies of deregulation in the Federal Trade Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency. Their study is also unusually well informed by the moral, cultural, intellectual, and historical foundations of government regulation. This extraordinary scope in turn flows from their conviction that regulatory politics lies at the core of American government and politics. Harris and Milkis conclude that the Regan-era deregulation movement came from the "public's declining respect for authority" upon which the president capitalized to produce a policy shift as major as that of the New Deal. Along the way, the authors point out significant ironies, especially that government reaction to the problems of the 1960s produced decentralizing reforms in the 1970s that in turn set the stage for the deregulation in the Regan administration. The ultimate irony is that in the end, "deregulation actually continued the twentieth-century enterprise of constructing a centralized administrative state in America." This volume is in the tradition of thoughtful and wide-ranging studies such as Martha Derthick and Paul Quirk's The Politics of Deregulation (CH, Feb '86). Highly recommended for all college and university libraries. D. F. Kettl Vanderbilt University

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Richard A. Harris is at Rutgers University, Camden. Sidney M. Milkis is at Brandeis University.