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   "text": "Regulation is mostly reactive and follows business cycles rather than preempting crises, because of the collective action problem of regulation, path dependencies, and political inertia, so rules arrive when governance improvements are least available.",
   "abstract": "Because of the collective action problem of regulation, path dependencies, and political inertia, among many other reasons, regulation is mostly reactive, following business cycles and not preemptive, e.g. enacted before crises when governance improvements are most needed.",
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   "text": "A core problem for most regulation is its inaccurate and delayed timing, which follows from the collective action problem of regulation, path dependencies, and political inertia rather than from any single institutional defect.",
   "abstract": "Dynamic elements in rulemaking can help optimize the timing of rule enactment. A core problem for most regulation is its inaccurate and delayed timing. Because of the collective action problem of regulation, path dependencies, and political inertia, among",
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   "text": "Sunset regulation has fallen out of wide use, and the author attributes this primarily to the administrative burden and political inertia of regularly reviewing and repealing laws, not to any defect in the concept itself.",
   "abstract": "Sunset regulations, which involve the removal of outdated or less relevant legal provisions over time, are no longer widely used due to several factors. Primarily, the administrative burden and political inertia associated with regularly reviewing and repealing such laws discourage these practices.",
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