CONSUMERISM AND THE REGULATORY SYSTEM: PARADIGMS OF REFORM |
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| Authors: | David R. Berman |
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| Affiliation: | DAVID R. BERMAN is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University and author of several works on national, state, and local politics. He is currently investigating various approaches to administrative rules and regulation writing. |
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| Abstract: | The problem of protecting consumer interests in the regulatory process is viewed from the free enterprise, progressive, and pluralist paradigms. Berman considers the characteristics of each paradigm, the ways reformers have sought to implement each, and how they interact and shape the nature of the regulatory system. The greatest conflict lies between the free enterprise and progressive paradigms on the need for regulation. The author concludes, however, that the regulatory system can best be viewed as a blend of the different paradigms–unstable though that blend may be. |
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