01137pab a2200145 454500 180718b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Hyman, Drew Values, policy-making, and implementation: the roots of bias in utility regulatory and energy mediation policy This article used a "realist" paradigm to explore policy-making and implementation and examines the effects of policy culture on the implementation of public policy. The processing of every termination/mediation cases by a state utility regulatory commission was used to examine differential implementation of law by a profit-seeking industry and a regulatory body. The validity of the assertion that health and welfare issues should be divorced from energy regulatory policy due to the character of consumers was examined the study supports the conclusion that in the emerging political economy, studies of implementation should consider the byorder political cuslture and discard the text book separation of policy-m Public Policy Alexander Wadsworth Administration and Society 2925 2925 2925 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Issue no: 23(2)Nov 91, p.310-32 AR2925 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR