Federal Agency Use of Electronic Media in the Rulemaking Process

Federal Agency Use of Electronic Media in the Rulemaking Process, by Cary Coglianese – University of Pennsylvania [via Michael Ravnitzky]

  • “In this report, I survey the landscape of agencies’ contemporary efforts to use electronic media in the rulemaking process. Drawing on a review of current agency uses of the Internet, a systematic survey of regulatory agencies’ websites, and interviews with managers at a variety of federal regulatory agencies, I identify both existing “best practices” as well as opportunities for continued improvement. As such, this study, commissioned by the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), is intended as one further input into a broader series of government-wide efforts to study and improve federal agencies’ use of electronic media. Over the years, many agencies have used the Internet to improve greatly the public’s access to information about rulemaking and to provide enhanced opportunities for public input into agency decisions. Through both large, cross-cutting initiatives – such as the online portal Regulations.Gov – as well as smaller ones at individual agencies, the federal government has undertaken numerous efforts to promote transparency of and public participation in the rulemaking process. In addition, a growing administrative infrastructure has emerged both within and across agencies, such as through the government-wide Federal Web Managers Council, for standardizing and improving the design of federal agency websites as well as agency use of interactive electronic media. As such, this report emerges at an energetic time in a field fertile for governmental innovation, with undoubtedly no shortage of ideas for continued development of the federal government’s digital infrastructure.”
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