Regulations
Introduction
Public policies may be specified at a high level by statutes or court rulings. Yet the specific details of implementing policies often take the form of regulations that are implemented by government agencies. Even in the late 1800s, Woodrow Wilson identified the difference between elected officials, who had responsibility for defining objectives of public policy, and government agencies and public administrators, who had the responsibility for technical implementation, of figuring out the details to meet those policy objectives [1]. That dualism is still with us today in the form of regulations, which help define the technical details of implementing a law.
Regulations may require specific actions; define obligations; ...
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