Around the world, regulatory institutions have assumed central roles in making and implementing public policy decisions. How well regulatory leaders manage these institutions ultimately shapes the degree to which regulation can succeed in solving social and economic problems. This chapter seeks...

Performance-based regulation is widely heralded as a superior approach to regulation. Rather than specifying the actions regulated entities must take, performance-based regulation instead requires the attainment of outcomes and gives flexibility in how to meet them. Despite nearly universal...

As local, state, and federal governments increase their reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) decision-making tools designed and operated by private contractors, so too do public concerns increase over the accountability and transparency of such AI tools. But current calls to respond to these...