The Struggle For Auto Safety

Author : Jerry L. Mashaw,David L. Harfst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015018326929

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The Struggle for Auto Safety by Jerry L. Mashaw,David L. Harfst Pdf

Combining superb investigative reporting with incisive analysis, Jerry Mashaw and David Harfst provide a compelling account of the attempt to regulate auto safety in America. Their penetrating look inside the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) spans two decades and reveals the complexities of regulating risk in a free society. Hoping to stem the tide of rising automobile deaths and injuries, Congress passed the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966. From that point on, automakers would build cars under the watchful eyes of the federal regulators at NHTSA. Curiously, however, the agency abandoned its safety mission of setting, monitoring, and enforcing performance standards in favor of the largely symbolic act of recalling defective autos. Mashaw and Harfst argue that the regulatory shift from rules to recalls was neither a response to a new vision of the public interest nor a result of pressure by the auto industry or other interest groups. Instead, the culprit was the legal environment surrounding NHTSA and other regulatory agencies such as the EPA, OSHA, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The authors show how NHTSA's decisions as well as its organization, processes, and personnel were reoriented in order to comply with the demands of a legal culture that proved surprisingly resistant to regulatory pressures. This broad-gauged view of NHTSA has much to say about political idealism and personal ambition, scientific commitment and professional competition, long-range vision and political opportunism. A fascinating illustration of America's ambivalence over whether government is a source of--or solution to--social ills, The Struggle for Auto Safety offers important lessons about the design and management of effective health and safety regulatory agencies today.

Author : Michael R. Lemov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611477467

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Car Safety Wars by Michael R. Lemov Pdf

Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to pay for safer cars? The “Car Safety Wars” were at first won by consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old politician. The act is a success story for government safety regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have—for years—sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.

Author : Jeffrey S. Lubbers
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 1590317068

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A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking by Jeffrey S. Lubbers Pdf

A concise but thorough resource, the guide provides a time-saving reference for the latest case law, and the most recent legislation affecting rulemaking.

Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Study of Consumer Automotive Safety Information
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0309062098

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Shopping for Safety by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Study of Consumer Automotive Safety Information Pdf

Author : Nicholas R. Parrillo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107159518

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Administrative Law from the Inside Out by Nicholas R. Parrillo Pdf

This collection of essays interrogate and extend the work of Jerry L. Mashaw, the most boundary-pushing scholar in the field of administrative law.

Author : Rena Steinzor,Sidney Shapiro
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226772047

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The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public by Rena Steinzor,Sidney Shapiro Pdf

Reasonable people disagree about the reach of the federal government, but there is near-universal consensus that it should protect us from such dangers as bacteria-infested food, harmful drugs, toxic pollution, crumbling bridges, and unsafe toys. And yet, the agencies that shoulder these responsibilities are in shambles; if they continue to decline, lives will be lost and natural resources will be squandered. In this timely book, Rena Steinzor and Sidney Shapiro take a hard look at the tangled web of problems that have led to this dire state of affairs. It turns out that the agencies are not primarily to blame and that regulatory failure actually stems from a host of overlooked causes. Steinzor and Shapiro discover that unrelenting funding cuts, a breakdown of the legislative process, an increase in the number of political appointees, a concurrent loss of experienced personnel, chaotic White House oversight, and ceaseless political attacks on the bureaucracy all have contributed to the broken system. But while the news is troubling, the authors also propose a host of reforms, including a new model for measuring the success of the agencies and a revitalization of the civil service. The People’s Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public is an urgent and compelling appeal to renew America’s best traditions of public service.

Author : Lisa Schultz Bressman,Edward L. Rubin,Kevin M. Stack
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9798886142044

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The Regulatory State by Lisa Schultz Bressman,Edward L. Rubin,Kevin M. Stack Pdf

Distinguished by a practical focus on how federal administrative agencies make decisions and how political institutions influence and courts review those decisions, with coverage tailored to 1L or upper-level courses on the regulatory state or legislation and regulation. Uses primary source materials drawn from agency rules, adjudicatory orders, and guidance documents to show how lawyers engage agencies. Uses an accessible central example (auto safety) throughout to make the materials cohesive and accessible. Presents legislation with attention to modern developments in the legislative process. Presents statutory interpretation in useful terms, highlighting the “tools” that courts employ as well as the theories that judges and scholars have offered. New to the 4th Edition: Significant New Supreme Court decisions, with detailed Notes, on: textual statutory interpretation (Bostock v. Clayton County) the Major Questions Doctrine (West Virginia v. EPA) and the shifting Chevron framework arbitrary and capricious review (FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project) New Presidential and OIRA documents reshaping regulatory review, including: Executive Order on Modernizing Regulatory Review (Exec. Order 14094) Draft Revisions to Circular A-4 on Regulatory Analysis Updated coverage on scientific analysis in agency decision making New treatment of distributional analysis and consideration of equity in agency decision making Benefits for instructors and students: Tools-based approach that highlights the methods of analysis that agencies, courts, and lawyers utilize Use of an accessible central example as a familiar entry point into a complex legal area Primary source materials—agency documents, including notice-and-comment rules, adjudicatory orders, agency guidance, and more Empirical data, normative/theoretical questions, practical examples

Author : Lisa Schultz Bressman,Edward L. Rubin,Kevin M. Stack
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 1325 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781543815979

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Regulatory State by Lisa Schultz Bressman,Edward L. Rubin,Kevin M. Stack Pdf

The Regulatory State, Third Edition is distinguished by a practical focus on how federal administrative agencies make decisions, how political institutions influence decisions, and how courts review those decisions. With coverage tailored to 1L or upper-level courses on the regulatory state or legislation and regulation, Bressman, Rubin, and Stack use primary source materials drawn from agency rules, adjudicatory orders, and guidance documents to show how lawyers engage agencies. Additionally, this book uses an accessible central example (auto safety) throughout to make the materials cohesive and accessible, and presents legislation with attention to modern developments in the legislative process. The Regulatory State, Third Edition also presents statutory interpretation in useful terms, highlighting the “tools” that courts employ as well as the theories that judges and scholars have offered. New to the Third Edition: Expanded discussion of agency methods of statutory implementation and regulatory interpretation Additional primary source materials Up-to-date examination of political and judicial control of agency action New chapter with a case study of the regulatory process using the main example from the book Professors and students will benefit from: Tools-based approach that highlights the methods of analysis that agencies, courts, and lawyers utilize Use of an accessible central example as a familiar entry point into a complex legal area Primary source materials—agency documents, including notice-and-comment rules, adjudicatory orders, agency guidance, and more Empirical data, normative or theoretical questions, and practical examples

Author : Michael J. Saks,Stephan Landsman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190668006

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Closing Death's Door by Michael J. Saks,Stephan Landsman Pdf

After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or infection caused by a healer). Research suggests that avoidable errors claim several hundred thousand lives every year. The principal economic counterforce to such errors, malpractice litigation, has never been a particularly effective deterrent for a host of reasons, with fewer than 3% of negligently injured patients (or their families) receiving any compensation from a doctor or hospital's insurer. Closing Death's Door brings the psychology of decision making together with the law to explore ways to improve patient safety and reduce iatrogenic injury, when neither the healthcare industry itself nor the legal system has made a substantial dent in the problem. Beginning with an unflinching introduction to the problem of patient safety, the authors go on to define iatrogenic injury and its scope, shedding light on the culture and structure of a healthcare industry that has failed to effectively address the problem-and indeed that has influenced legislation to weaken existing legal protections and impede the adoption of potentially promising reforms. Examining the weak points in existing systems with an eye to using law to more effectively bring about improvement, the authors conclude by offering a set of ideas intended to start a conversation that will lead to new legal policies that lower the risk of harm to patients. Closing Death's Door is brought to vivid life by the stories of individuals and groups that have played leading roles in the nation's struggle with iatrogenic injury, and is essential reading for medical and legal professionals, as well as lawmakers and laypeople with an interest in healthcare policy.

Author : Dimitry Anastakis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781487555856

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Dream Car by Dimitry Anastakis Pdf

Dream Car tells the story of entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin’s fantastical 1970s-era Safety Vehicle-1 (SV1), audaciously launched during a tumultuous breakpoint in postwar history. The tale of the sexy-yet-safe SV1 reveals the influence of automobiles on ideas about the future, technology, entrepreneurship, risk, safety, showmanship, politics, sex, gender, business, and the state, as well as the history of the auto industry’s birth, decline, and rebirth. Written as an “open road,” the book invites readers to travel a narrative arc that unfolds chronologically and thematically. Dream Car’s seven chapters have been structured so that they can be read in any order, determined by whichever theme each reader finds most interesting. The book also includes a musical playlist of car songs from the era and songs about the SV1 itself.

Author : Jim Conley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317169819

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Car Troubles by Jim Conley Pdf

Car Troubles central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematized. It examines a wide range of issues that are central to automobility by situating it within social, economic, and political contexts, and by combining social theory, specific case studies and policy-oriented analysis. With an international team of contributors the book provides a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the global phenomenon of automobility from the Anglo world to the cases in China and Chile and all the elements that relate to it.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Air bag restraint systems
ISBN : LOC:00100994458

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Auto Safety Oversight by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Author : Peter W. Huber,Robert E. Litan
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815720188

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The Liability Maze by Peter W. Huber,Robert E. Litan Pdf

With an ever-increasing number of liability lawsuits, are corporations electing to play it safe rather than risk the uncertainties accompanying innovation? In The Liability Maze experts address the issues surrounding safety and innovation and present the most detailed and comprehensive study to date on the actual impact of U.S. liability law. In recent decades it has been widely assumed that liability laws promote safety by significantly raising the price companies must pay for negligence, product defects and accidents. More recently, others have suggested that the broad and unpredictable sweep of these laws actually deters innovation. The risks of lawsuits are so great that corporations are showing more caution in product innovation than ever before. The contributors focus on five sectors of the economy where the liability system appears to have had the greatest effects, positive or negative: the private aircraft, automobile, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries, and the medical profession. They suggest that in many sectors liability law has hampered innovation. In others it has stimulated safety improvements, although perhaps not so much as vigilant safety regulations.

Author : United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Traffic safety
ISBN : UCAL:C3100023

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NHTSA by United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Pdf

Author : Robert W. Kolb
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 2593 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412916523

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Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society by Robert W. Kolb Pdf

This encyclopedia spans the relationships among business, ethics and society, with an emphasis on business ethics and the role of business in society.