Editing Rulemaking (section)

{{Short description|Process by which executive branch agencies create regulations}}
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In [[administrative law]], '''rulemaking''' is the process that [[executive (government)|executive]] and [[Independent agencies of the United States government|independent]] [[Government agency|agencies]] use to create, or ''promulgate'', [[regulation]]s. In general, [[legislature]]s first set broad [[Public policy|policy mandates]] by passing [[statute]]s, then agencies create more detailed [[regulation]]s through ''rulemaking''.

By bringing detailed [[science|scientific]] and other types of expertise to bear on policy, the rulemaking process has been the means by which some of the most far-reaching [[government]] regulations of the 20th century have been created. For example, science-based regulations are critical to modern programs for [[environmental protection]], [[food safety]], and [[Worker safety and health|workplace safety]].  However, the growth in regulations has fueled criticism that the rulemaking process reduces the [[Transparency (humanities)|transparency]] and [[accountability]] of [[democracy|democratic]] government.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Schoenbrod |first=David |author-link=David Schoenbrod | editor-first=Ronald |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-link=Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |title= Delegation  |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC |year=2008 |publisher= [[SAGE Publishing|SAGE]]; [[Cato Institute]] |location= Thousand Oaks, CA |doi=10.4135/9781412965811.n74 |isbn= 978-1412965804 |oclc=750831024| lccn = 2008009151 |pages= 117–18 |quote=...[L]egislators can claim credit for the expected benefits..., but shift blame to the agency for the costs and disappointed expectations ....|url-access=subscription }}</ref>