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Capture Theory

Capture Theory is a regulatory theory that posits the phenomenon whereby regulatory agencies, created to act in the public interest, are gradually dominated by the industries or special interests they are intended to regulate, leading to policies that favor those interests over the general populace.

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136

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89

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2017–2026

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Regulatory Capture Theory

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79

Theories of Economic Regulation

Richard A. Posner · The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science · 1974 · 1.2K citations

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The Politics of Government Decision-Making: A Theory of Regulatory Capture

Jean‐Jacques Laffont, J. Tirole · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1991 · 1.1K citations

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Capture and Ideology in the Economic Theory of Politics

Joseph P. Kalt, Mark A. Zupan · American Economic Review · 1984 · 716 citations

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Balancing Act: How to Capture Knowledge without Killing It

John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid · Knowledge management and organizational learning · 2006 · 579 citations

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Regulatory Capture, Public Interest, and the Public Agenda: Toward a Synthesis

Murray Levine, J. L. Forrence · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization · 1990 · 413 citations

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Authors

136

  1. RA
    Richard A. Posner

    University of Chicago, United States

    3 publications · 1.2K citations

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  2. JB
    John Braithwaite

    Australian National University, Australia

    3 publications · 344 citations

    3

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  3. DP
    Dan Piponi

    Universidade Paulista, Brazil

    2 publications · 78 citations

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  4. JL
    John Lewis

    University of Southern California, United States

    2 publications · 78 citations

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  5. GB
    George Borshukov

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    2 publications · 78 citations

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Institutions

89

  1. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    2 h-index

    1 publications

    56 citations

  2. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    1.2K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    68 citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    73 citations

  5. Centre for Economic Policy Research

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    42 citations

  6. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    298 citations

  7. National Bureau of Economic Research

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    1.2K citations

  8. Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 5 publications · 115 citations

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  2. Regulation & Governance

    3 publications · 141 citations

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  3. eYLS (Yale Law School)

    Repository · 2 publications · 49 citations

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  4. Law & Social Inquiry

    2 publications · 121 citations

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  5. Attention Perception & Psychophysics

    2 publications · 209 citations

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