The Administrative State Project


Additions to the Federal Register, 2019
| Notices | Presidential documents | Proposed rules | Rules | Total documents added* | Total pages added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week of November 30 - December 4 | |||||
| 412 | 3 | 37 | 65 | 517 | 2,280 |
| Year-to-date totals for January 1 - December 4 | |||||
| 20,823 | 307 | 2,030 | 3,087 | 26,222 | 78,698 |
| *Total documents added is equal to the weekly sum of all notices, presidential documents, proposed rules, and rules. | |||||
The Administrative State Project tracks various aspects of government activity on a regular basis, including the number of federal administrative agency documents and total pages added weekly to the Federal Register since the beginning of 2017. The ticker above shows the latest numbers.
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Ballotpedia's Administrative State Project is an encyclopedic overview of the administrative state. It includes information about the administrative and regulatory activities of the United States government. It also covers concepts, laws, court cases, executive orders, scholarly work, and other material related to the administrative state.
- For a list of all pages in the project, see the Administrative State Project Index
What we're covering
- Laws
- Court cases
- Terms and concepts
- Scholarly work
- "The Rise and Rise of the Administrative State" by Gary Lawson
- "1930s Redux: The Administrative State Under Siege" by Gillian E. Metzger
- "'The People Surrender Nothing': Social Compact Theory, Republicanism, and the Modern Administrative State" by Joseph Postell
- "The Threat to Liberty" by Steven F. Hayward
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