Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-11-2007
Abstract
We examine 89 websites from federal regulatory agencies in order to evaluate their ease of use for those interested in commenting on or learning about their proposed regulations. We find that while there has been a lot of attention given to second and third generation “e-rulemaking” efforts, agency websites, a first generation innovation, still have considerable room for improvement. Notwithstanding legislative and executive branch efforts to enhance the accessibility of regulatory information on the Internet, our coding of regulatory agency websites reveals considerable variation in the quality of agency websites, with many websites still failing to provide relatively basic features.
Keywords
e-rulemaking, websites, regulation.
Publication Title
Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Digital Government Research Conference : bridging disciplines & domains
Repository Citation
Shapiro, Stuart and Coglianese, Cary, "First Generation E-Rulemaking: An Assessment of Regulatory Agency Websites" (2007). All Faculty Scholarship. 147.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/147
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