Fountain serving on national study of federal e-rulemaking

Political Science and Public Policy professor Jane E. Fountain is among two dozen researchers, government officials, and business professionals serving on the American Bar Association’s Committee on the Status and Future of Federal e-Rulemaking.

Chaired by Sally Katzen, director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs during the Clinton administration, the committee was created to examine and provide recommendations on the funding, design, and implementation of the four-year-old e-government initiative. It is organized under the auspices of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section of the American Bar Association and is supported by grants from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Fountain, who directs the National Center for Digital Government, researches networked governance and e-government. The center aims to apply and extend the social sciences for research at the intersection of governance, institutions and information technologies.

A report documenting the committee’s findings will be released at the end of the year and is expected to include short- and long-term recommendations for congressional, presidential and administrative actions needed for the initiative’s success.

Commissioned in 2002 by the E-Government Act of 2002, e-Rulemaking is an effort to move paper-and-pencil rulemaking to the web. Such a move is expected to improve access to rulemaking documents and allow for better searching and sorting of proposed rules and comments. The initiative plans to move all federal rulemaking documents online by the end of this year.

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September 4, 2007.

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