...Srinivas C. Parinandi Studies of regulation in the United States often assume that the federal government has been the major initiator of regulatory behavior and that the emergence of a regulatory state has been a modern phenomenon. This view, to some degree, belies the experience of the U.S...

... considered, including those related to political calculation, institutional constraints, economic and noneconomic policy objectives, and interest group input. Dimensionality reduction and random forest models show that a narrow set of motivations related to fiscality, economic regulation, and public...