Deregulation continues to be a fiercely debated issue in the US. The proper role and amount of government intervention or oversight is constant fodder for politicians, analysts and talk radio, and the anti-regulation movement within the federal government formed in the 1970s. While that debate rages, however, regulation at the state level remains below the radar screen, yet it is a crucial part of the picture. Some states are even countering the federal trend by supplementing their own regulatory efforts. Thus the push toward devolution of powers may actually be helping states strengthen regulation in some areas rather than weaken it in some areas. state regulation. His book provides empirical analysis across all 50 states in ten important areas of industry, including utilities, telecommunications, the environment, health care certification, legal services and bank solvency. He finds that fears of regulatory capture by industry are overblown, as are concerns that a race to the bottom will necessarily result from competition between states trying to lure industry. State legislatures and agencies still base decisions on their own ideologies and analysis. Nevertheless, there are exceptions to the rules, especially in the case of occupational regulation, and there clearly is room for improvement in state-level regulation. Teske assesses a wide range of possible reforms.

""Choosing Schools" is a valuable contribution to the highly contentious, emotionally charged debate about school choice. Schneider, Teske, and Marschall have written a careful, reasonable, balanced and fair assessment of the evidence. Their quietly persuasive book deserves a wide readership."--Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education in the U.S. Department of Education and author of "The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980"

"The authors' careful and judicious reading of their evidence will be greatly appreciated by those who are frustrated by the selective and inflated claims that more typically have dominated the school choice debate. While the published articles of these authors are familiar to those who have followed the school choice debate carefully, the integration of the various pieces into this book gives that content a sense of freshness, greater complexity, and added empirical horsepower."--Jeffrey Henig, author of "Rethinking School Choice" and coauthor of "The Color of School Reform"

"There is not much empirical evidence on how school choice programs work in practice--which is perhaps the central concern in the debate over choice, political and intellectual. This book provides interesting new evidence on a wide range of choice-related topics, and ties it together with theories from economics, social psychology, sociology, and public opinion. In so doing, it offers a firm basis for gaining perspective on the performance of school choice and judging its prospects. There is nothing like it in the literature. It is a tour de force."--Terry M. Moe, Hoover Institution and Stanford University

This is a book written using automatic writing and spirit inspiration, regarding various subjects from the Divine Light to the Divine Shadow.

This text examines the controversies surrounding state and federal regulatory oversight, and presents recommendations for changing transportation regulation and federalism.