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Regulatory Politics and Electric Utilities: A Case Study in Political Economy
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1982
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EngineeringAgent TheoryLawCapture TheoryAdministrative LawBureaucracyRegulatory AgenciesManagementPolitical EconomyGovernment RegulationEnergy RegulationEconomicsPublic PolicyRegulatory PoliticsRegulationCorporate GovernanceRegulatory EconomicsRegulatory RequirementFast-changing EnvironmentEconomic PolicyEnergy LawEnergy PolicyCase StudyRegulatory EnvironmentElectricity MarketsPolitical Science
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.