To alleviate overcrowding in pretrial detention facilities, the City of New York established a program offering substantial budgetary increments to those district attorneys' offices in the city that reduced the number of long-term detainee cases. The experience with this program suggests that...

New York State experimented with replacing their litigation-oriented system for achieving toxic dump site cleanup with one promising to lower transaction costs through alternative dispute resolution. Our analysis of outcomes is informed by three generations of implementation work focusing on (1)...

Regulation, coercion, and popular support -- Regulation and its critics -- Regulatory craft and regulatory reform -- The essential Superfund -- Reforming Superfund -- Succeeding at regulatory reform -- Taming regulation

Despite three decades of vigorous efforts at deregulation across the government, regulation remains ubiquitous. It also continues to be unpopular because it forces individuals and businesses to do things frequently costly and unpleasant things that they don't want to do. If regulatory programs...