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100			_aHyman, Drew
245			_aValues, policy-making, and implementation: the roots of bias in utility regulatory and energy mediation policy
520			_aThis 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
650			_aPublic Policy
700			_aAlexander
700			_aWadsworth
773			_aAdministration and Society
909			_a2925
999			_c2925 _d2925