The Politics of Public Utility Regulation
The Politics of Public Utility Regulation

Author: William T. Gormley, Jr.

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0822974274

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This book focuses on the important and increasingly controversial issues of utility regulation by combining a sophisticated understanding of these issues with a rigorous examination of various regulatory arrangements across the American states. It draws on interviews with participants in twelve states: public utility commissioners, commission staff members, utility company executives, governmental consumer advocates, and citizen activists. In addition to offering an up-to-date, comprehensive survey of regulatory politics at the state level, Gormley makes specific proposals for regulatory reform and emphasizes the importance (and difficulty) of assuring both expertise and accountability. Students of politics and public policy will find the state-level approach useful in examining the strategies of the "New Federalism" that transfer more and more formerly federal responsibilities to the states.

Politics of Public Utility Regulation in the United States, 1980
Politics of Public Utility Regulation in the United States, 1980

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Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages:

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For this data collection, interviews were conducted in 1979-1980 with managers associated with the public utility regulation process in 12 states. Respondents were public utility commissioners, public utility commission staff members, utility company executives, assistant attorneys general, and representatives of citizens' groups (both governmental and nongovernmental advocates). Variables include attitudinal measures regarding issues in the public utility regulation process, as well as perceptions of organizational accountability, decision-making processes, allocation of resources, and diffusion of innovations within the various organizations associated with the regulatory process. Background information on each respondent was also collected, but many of these variables were recoded as missing data to protect the anonymity of the respondents.

The Economic and Social Regulation of Public Utilities
The Economic and Social Regulation of Public Utilities

Author: Judith Clifton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1317981618

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Utilities have long been essential for societies, supplying basic services for nations, organizations and households alike. The proper functioning and regulation of utilities is therefore critical for the economy, society and security. History provides an invaluable insight into important issues of the economic and social regulation of utilities and offers guidance for future debates. However, the history of utility regulation – which speaks of changing, diverse and complex experiences around the world – was sidelined or marginalised when economists and policy-makers enthusiastically embraced the question of how to reform the utilities from the 1970s. This book examines in depth the complex regulation and deregulation of energy, communications, transportation and water utilities across Western Europe, the United States, Australia, Brazil, China and India. In each case, attention is drawn to the changing roles of the state, the market and firms in the regulation, organization and delivery of utility services. This book was originally published as a special issue of Business History.

Regulatory Politics and Electric Utilities
Regulatory Politics and Electric Utilities

Author: Douglas D. Anderson

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1981-03-30

Total Pages: 216

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Traditional theories hold that regulatory agencies act mainly as champions of the interest they are meant to oversee. Anderson looks at regulation within the fast-changing environment. By adding the external political and internal bureaucratic variables he evaluates the capture theory.

Regulatory Reform of Public Utilities
Regulatory Reform of Public Utilities

Author: Fumitoshi Mizutani

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1781953619

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Covering issues such as deregulation, privatization, organizational reforms, and competition policy, Regulatory Reform of Public Utilities provides a comprehensive summary of regulatory reforms in Japanese public utility industries. Fumitoshi Mizutani expertly explores the main regulatory structures and regulatory reforms in eight Japanese public utility industries: electric power, gas utility, water supply, railways, local bus, postal services, telecommunications, and broadcasting. There are also separate chapters on yardstick regulation, universal service obligations, privatization and structural reforms, and private sector involvement Ð all important issues in Japanese regulatory reform. This unique study reveals that regulatory reform in Japan has distinctive features. It seeks to fill the information gap and widen understanding in the international community in relation to the Japanese experience with regulation and reform of public utility industries. This informative book will prove invaluable to postgraduate students, policymakers, and researchers in fields such as regulation, empirical industrial organization, and public policy.

The Institutionalist Approach to Public Utilities Regulation
The Institutionalist Approach to Public Utilities Regulation

Author: Edythe Stern Miller

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13:

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For the past several decades, a climate of deregulation has encompassed industries ranging from public utilities to mass transportation. Harry Martin Trebing has been at the forefront of this debate as one of the foremost specialists in the world in the field of public utility regulation. Warren J. Samuels and Edythe S. Miller have collected a series of articles that assess Harry Trebing's theories on public utility regulation while examining his towering contribution to the field.