ERulemaking
Encyclopedia
Electronic rulemaking is the use of digital technologies by government agencies
in the rulemaking
and decision making
processes. An interdisciplinary electronic rulemaking research community has formed as a result of National Science Foundation funding under the auspices of the Digital Government Program. Harvard University published a 2003 workshop report on the avenues for future research and the University of Pittsburgh published a 2004 stakeholder report assessing the widely discussed "Internet Changes Everything" thesis put forward by Professor Stephen Johnson in a 1998 law review article.
Government agency
A government or state agency is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety of agency types...
in the rulemaking
Rulemaking
In administrative law, rulemaking refers to the process that executive and independent agencies use to create, or promulgate, regulations. In general, legislatures first set broad policy mandates by passing statutes, then agencies create more detailed regulations through rulemaking.By bringing...
and decision making
Decision making
Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios. Every decision making process produces a final choice. The output can be an action or an opinion of choice.- Overview :Human performance in decision terms...
processes. An interdisciplinary electronic rulemaking research community has formed as a result of National Science Foundation funding under the auspices of the Digital Government Program. Harvard University published a 2003 workshop report on the avenues for future research and the University of Pittsburgh published a 2004 stakeholder report assessing the widely discussed "Internet Changes Everything" thesis put forward by Professor Stephen Johnson in a 1998 law review article.
See also
- E-democracyE-democracyE-democracy refers to the use of information technologies and communication technologies and strategies in political and governance processes...
- eGovernmentEGovernmentE-Government is digital interactions between a government and citizens , government and businesses/Commerce , government and employees , and also between government and governments /agencies...
- Open source governanceOpen source governanceOpen-source governance is a political philosophy which advocates the application of the philosophies of the open-source and open-content movements to democratic principles in order to enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of policy, as with a wiki document. Legislation is...
- Collaborative e-democracyCollaborative e-democracyCollaborative e-democracy is a democratic conception which combines key features of direct democracy, representative democracy, and e-democracy...
- Interactive Public DocketInteractive Public DocketThe Interactive Public Docket is an eRulemaking tool created and managed by non governmental organizations that seek to provide the public with the capability to: 1) publicly post data and other materials pertaining to federal proceedings on a continuous basis, including after the close of the...
External links
- eRulemaking Initiative
- E-Rulemaking Resource Website at the Penn Program on Regulation
- eRulemaking Research Group
- eRulemaking Research in Carnegie Mellon University
- eRulemaking Research in University of Pittsburgh Blog
- eRulemaking Testbed
- eRulemaking Portal by the State of Florida
- eRulemaking Portal by the Commonwealth of Virginia
- Cornell eRulemaking Initiative
- Regulations.gov