I became aware only this week of the publication earlier this year of Paul Teske’s book, Regulation in the States, by the Brookings Institution Press. I have not yet read it, and so cannot recommend it to you from that vantage point. However, the abstract looks interesting, I think it might interest a substantial set of Overlawyered readers, and the time of a guest blogger is short. So, here’s a clip from the book’s abstract:

“Regulation in the States provides original quantitative analyses of state-level regulation across all the states in ten important sectors such as telecommunications, electricity, and professional licensing. Each section uses the same template for research and discussion, enabling cross-comparison among industries. Teske finds that commonly held fears of regulatory capture by industry are overblown, as are worries about an inevitable ‘race to the bottom.’ Legislatures and agencies still tend to base their policy decisions on their own ideologies and analysis. Teske also examines important exceptions, however, such as the case of occupational regulation.”

For a short, mostly favorable review by a political scientist, click here.