Product Description: First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this edition, the authors organize the chapters that explore policy and process within the agencies into the traditional functional categories of adjudication, informal action, and rulemaking. Compares and contrasts policymaking of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and also compares traditional forms of rulemaking by the FCC with the "new" style of environmental rulemaking by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (view table of contents)