Electronic rulemaking: a public participation research agenda for the social sciences
Social Science Computer Review
A relatedness analysis approach for regulation comparison and e-rulemaking applications
dg.o '05 Proceedings of the 2005 national conference on Digital government research
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We examine 89 websites from federal regulatory agencies in order to evaluate their ease of use for those interested in commenting on or learning about their proposed regulations. We find that while there has been a lot of attention given to second and third generation "e-rulemaking" efforts, agency websites, a first generation innovation, still have considerable room for improvement. Notwithstanding legislative and executive branch efforts to enhance the accessibility of regulatory information on the Internet, our coding of regulatory agency websites reveals considerable variation in the quality of agency websites, with many websites still failing to provide relatively basic features.