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Terminating the oldest living regulator: the death of the interstate commerce commission

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  • Samuel Best
  • Paul Teske
  • Michael Mintrom

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This paper examines the termination of the oldest federal regulatory agency, in light of existing policy termination theories. The need for the ICC was severely reduced by major deregulation of railroads and trucking in 1980, changes from which also reduced the ICC's ability to maintain external interest group support. Still, although its budget and staff were cut, the ICC survived intact for 15 more years, until budgetary politics found it to be a useful symbolic target for termination. We also argue that this case shows the utility of putting termination theory into the larger framework of policy change, a literature that itself has largely ignored the critical element of policy and organizational termination.”Once you establish a commission … you have the devil's own time passing an act abolishing it.”(1).

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  • Samuel Best & Paul Teske & Michael Mintrom, 1997. "Terminating the oldest living regulator: the death of the interstate commerce commission," International Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(12), pages 2067-2096, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:lpadxx:v:20:y:1997:i:12:p:2067-2096
    DOI: 10.1080/01900699708525287
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