'Carrigan has … offered a hypothesis ready for empirical inquiry, and one that regulatory scholars are well advised to take up. The contemporary political context suggests that such research stands to make theoretically meaningful and substantively crucial contributions.' David P. Carter, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
1. Linking regulatory failures to organizational design; Part I. Examining the Performance of Multiple-Purpose Regulators: 2. Isolated effects or widespread dysfunction?; 3. Appealing to goal ambiguity to explain performance; Part II. Assessing the Role of Regulatory Agency Design in the Gulf Oil Disaster: 4. Balancing conflict and coordination at MMS: 5. Politics and offshore oil and gas policy; Part III. A Theory of Multiple-Purpose Regulators: 6. Policy context and the political choice to combine purposes; 7. Operations, organization, politics, and policy context; Appendix A. Additional description and analyses for chapters 2 and 3; Appendix B. Mathematical context, derivations, and proofs for chapter 6.