RFF Policy and Governance Set Series

Steel Production

by Clifford S. Russell and William Jeffrey Vaughan

Published 1 June 1976

The authors address the problems of determining the implications of different environmental standards and public policies by investigating their effect on industrial costs and resource use within linear-programming framework.

Originally published in 1976

Rules in the Making

by Wesley Magat, Alan J. Krupnick, and Winston Harrington

Published 1 July 1986

Rules in the Making represents an attempt to revolutionize ways of thinking about regulatory decision-making. The book tries to show that statistical methodologies can be used to determine what factors are important in the establishment of government regulation by developing a mathematical model of the regulatory process and agency behavior. The model is then tested using a case study of the Environmental Protection Agency's setting of effluent discharge standards under the Clean Water Act.

Originally published in 1986

Enforcing Pollution Control Laws

by Clifford S. Russell, Winston Harrington, and William J. Vaughn

Published 19 January 2011

Economic models are used to show the extent of the difficulties involved in monitoring and enforcing pollution control laws on a continual basis. The authors make several recommendations for policy change. They also show that high rates of compliance can be achieved within tight budget constraints.

Originally published in 1986

Collective Decision Making

by Clifford S. Russell

Published 26 November 2013

First Published in 2011.This is Volume 11 of fourteen in the library collection of Policy and Government and looks at the applications from public choice theory on decision making. It brings together proceedings that look seek to answer the question for the forum, which was whether public choice theory offers promise of providing a firmer foundation for applied institutional research and for institutional innovations which could contribute to the solution of some of these problems.