Description: In most federal mission areas-from low-income housing to food
safety to higher education assistance-national goals are achieved
through the use of various policy tools, such as direct spending,
grants, loans and loan guarantees, insurance, tax preferences, and
regulations. Although policy tools have proliferated in recent decades,
knowledge of how to design and manage the federal policy tool set
has not kept pace. Policy makers need a better understanding of
how individual policy tools such as regulation operate, how to
measure their performance and effectiveness, which actors participate
in implementing them, and what features are necessary to
ensure accountability and oversight.
Kerwin contends
that the greatest challenge facing the management of regulation
development is the persistence of its obscurity. His report represents
an important step toward removing some of that obscurity and helping
raise regulation development management to a level of prominence
befitting its impact on public policy. Organizational Transformation
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