TY - JOUR AU - Schmandt, Jurgen AB - Jurgen Schmandt Regulation is a government's means for telling a map is drawn to sketch the road to the new destination. The regulatory agency then takes over the private sector (and sometimes itself) how not to do business. As a policy instrument it is widely and translates the statute into concrete policy criticized as cumbersome, slow, inefficient, and prescriptions, called rules, which differ from laws costly; nevertheless, it holds promise for the res- only in the ways in which they are developed. olution of complex policy issues associated with Regulatory legislation and rulemaking thus com- increased social dependence on science and tech- plement each other. Acting alone, neither would nology. achieve anything: Without statute, a rule would First, because of a unique division of labor among be illegal and thrown out by the courts; without the three branches of the U.S. government, reg- rules, the statute would remain an empty dec- ulation allows for shared and sequential policy- laration of intent.' Because regulation allows for shared and se- making: quential policymaking, it has long been the in- strument of choice for dealing with policy issues The Congress finds that some private activity that are new or not fully understood. TI - Regulation and Science JF - Science, Technology, & Human Values DO - 10.1177/016224398400900105 DA - 1984-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/regulation-and-science-EL8x8DEIcR SP - 23 EP - 38 VL - 9 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -