Fully open-access book, OUP.

Description: Freedom of information acts, impact assessment of proposed legislation, Ombudsman offices and stakeholders' engagement are now common policy instruments that open up the rulemaking process to a variety of interests. But do these instruments have an effect on policy and governance outcomes?

In Designing Rulemaking, we answer this question with a novel, purpose-built dataset on regulatory design based on the legal provisions disciplining four rulemaking procedures. Examining twenty-eight countries (the EU twenty-seven plus the UK), the dataset operationalises rules as data and measures the design features of each procedure in each country. We draw on set-theoretic method to measure the effects of these combinations of rulemaking procedures on the quality of the business environment, perception of corruption, and environmental performance. Their findings shatter predominant views on policy change in Europe and offer a varied, detailed, granular account of the efficacy of regulatory design.

March 2025. Watch the launch of this open-access book, with Christiane Arndt (OECD) and Jonathan Wiener (Duke) as discussants. Full video here.

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