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   "text": "In the competition to shape financial policy through rulemaking, small and well organized special interest groups such as the financial industry dominate latent groups such as dispersed investors.",
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   "text": "Adaptive rulemaking helps overcome the collective action problem of rulemaking because when there are fewer stable rules, latent majority groups and dominant minority groups have fewer opportunities to influence a continuously and timely adapting process.",
   "abstract": "rulemaking helps overcome the collective action problem of rulemaking because with fewer stable rules latent majority groups and dominant minority groups have fewer opportunities to influence the continuously and timely adapting rulemaking process.",
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   "text": "Sunset provisions likely increase rents extracted by interest groups and entrench current majoritarian preferences, and they can create planning problems for both public and private actors.",
   "abstract": "rather than genuine policy improvement. Sunset provisions also likely increase rents from interest groups, entrench current majoritarian preferences, which can at times produce planning conundrums for public and private actors.",
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   "text": "Because renewal deadlines create recurring windows for legislative action, sunset clauses become instruments of political maneuvering in which lawmakers cater to interest groups or shifting political winds instead of pursuing long term policy solutions.",
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   "text": "The WDAG system suppresses rent seeking by internalizing advocacy: there are no external costs or lobbying pressures because any advocacy occurs transparently within the system's forums, where all user actions and preferences are recorded.",
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