Adam White and Jace Lington talk with Jonathan Wolfson about a new Cicero Institute report that ranks state regulatory systems based on their accountability, responsiveness, and transparency. They discuss cost-benefit analysis, regulatory sunset provisions, state-level centralized review modeled on OIRA, and venue restrictions.

Notes:

• Matthew Nolan and Jonathan Wolfson, National Regulatory Reform: Progress Rankings Report 2023
• Matthew Nolan and Jonathan Wolfson, State Regulatory Processes Are Ripe for Reform, Governing
• Cicero Institute, Regulatory Sunset Model Bill
• Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Administrative Law in the States
• Eugene Scalia, 2023 C. Boyden Gray Lecture on the Administrative State, “The Administrative State Debate: A View From the Secretary’s Office”
• 2021, Stuart Shapiro, The Impossibility of Legislative Regulatory Reform and the Futility of Executive Regulatory Reform, George Mason Law Review