Using the Texas Railroad Commission as an example, identify how an agency can survive over time.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Agencies don't quietly fade away after the political environment changes. They find something new to do.
2. Finding something new to do allows the agency to hire more people, which provides new expenditures.
3. The Railroad Commission was originally intended to regulate rail rates in Texas, but the national government effectively accomplished this with its own agency.
4. The Railroad Commission found a new role in regulating the production of oil and gas. It expanded its regulatory powers into the gas utility industry as well as the liquid petroleum gas and compressed natural gas industries. This new role ensured it survival.
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In what circumstances do the courts regulate the regulatory system?
What will be an ideal response?
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a. that the world is in a post developing period and global inequalities have been minimized b. development is a Western notion that the West is imposing on non-Western nations c. cultural changes have reached a point of near global homogenization d. the maximum levels of development have been reached by the rich countries and now the poor ones will be able to catch up