Rulemaking: How Government Agencies Write Law and Make Policy (An Indo-American Cooperative Publishing Reprint), (First Indian Reprint)

Rulemaking is the single most important function performed by agencies of government. Rulemaking refines, and in some instances defines, the mission of every government agency. In so doing it provides much of the direction and content for other important bureaucratic functions, such as budgeting, program implementation, procurement, personnel management, and dispute resolution. It is to rules, not statutes or other containers of the law, that we turn most often for an understanding of what is expected of us and what we can expect from government. As a result, constant and intense political activity surrounds the contemporary rulemaking process. Effective political action in America is no longer possible without serious attention to rulemaking.

This book is the first general text of rulemaking intended for students and practitioners of public administration, political science, and public policy. The problems that beset rulemaking, and the prospects for solving them, are given extensive attention, as are elements of rulemaking that have not previously been treated together in a single source. Familiar topics, such as basic rulemaking procedure and judicial consideration of rules, are reviewed. In addition, the book considers the historical origins of rulemaking; patterns of public participation in the development of rules; the management of rulemaking; and the constant struggle between the White House, Congress, and the courts for control of rulemaking.