E-rulemaking: bringing data to theory at the Federal Communications Commission.

From: Duke Law Journal | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: de Figueiredo, John M. | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

This Article examines the theoretical promise of e-rulemaking with an examination of data about all filings at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1999 to 2004. The Article first reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on e-rulemaking. It then analyzes a dataset of all filings at the FCC using descriptive statistics and regression analysis to determine what drives e-filings and whether the theoretical promise of e-rulemaking is being realiz...

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