This paper explores the speed of rulemaking in American state governments. Drawing on a unique data set of over 250,000 individual rules issued by states from 1993 through 2009, we introduce new measures of the speed and breadth of rulemaking in American state bureaucracies, providing a new way of evaluating the incidence of rulemaking delay within and across governments. We focus specifically on how professionalism and oversight powers of state legislative and executive branches affect rulemaking speed and find that states with more professionalized legislatures and governments with extensive legislative/executive oversight powers experience greater delays in rule adoption. These findings provide important new insights into the politics of regulatory delay and suggest disparate ways in which sub-national governments approach regulatory policymaking in a federal system.

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美国各州的规则制定速度

本文探讨了美国各州政府制定规则的速度。我们利用由 1993 年至 2009 年各州发布的超过 250,000 条单独规则组成的独特数据集，引入了衡量美国各州官僚机构规则制定速度和广度的新指标，从而提供了一种评估政府内部和政府间规则制定延迟发生率的新方法。我们特别关注州立法和行政部门的专业性和监督权力如何影响规则制定速度，并发现立法机构更加专业化的州和拥有广泛立法/行政监督权力的政府在规则的采用方面会遇到更大的延迟。