Policymaking – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:43:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Policymaking – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 What’s Value in Health Care? Powerful Companies Make It Hard To Know https://lpeproject.org/blog/whats-value-in-health-care-powerful-companies-make-it-hard-to-know/ Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11740 This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** If you take them at their word, drug companies, medical device and software companies, hospitals, and their investors are committed to providing “value” to patients and the public. Gilead, the infectious disease giant, claims its medication prices “reflect the...

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]]> The Same Script: Value-Based Payment, Managed Care, and Neoliberalism https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-same-script-value-based-payment-managed-care-and-neoliberalism/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11722 This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ushered in a new governing consensus in health care policy. To address persistently high costs and poor outcomes, policymakers sought to break from the “fee-for-service” payment system, which reimburses physicians for...

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]]> Local Electricity and Bottom-up Energy Planning https://lpeproject.org/blog/local-electricity-and-botton-up-energy-planning/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11703 This post concludes a symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power presents a coherent vision for more effective public control of electricity, to be imposed largely by congressional mandate. In his response, William Boyd provides an excellent explanation of the...

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]]> Abandoning Administrative Law During a Presidential Immigration Crisis https://lpeproject.org/blog/abandoning-administrative-law_link-fixed/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:45:27 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11712 Mahmoud Khalil, Kilmar Ábrego García, and Rumeysa Ozturk are just a few of the people against whom the second Trump Administration has openly engaged in illegitimate forms of immigration enforcement. In addition, President Trump seems undeterred by federal court orders that he stop commanding the administrative state to implement unlawful immigration punishments. As a result, the U.S.

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]]> State Efforts to Rein in Corporate Medicine https://lpeproject.org/blog/state-efforts-to-rein-in-corporate-medicine/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11675 This post is part of a series on the corporate consolidation and financialization of health care. Read the rest of the posts here. ** ** ** Large corporations are increasingly dominating American health care, including physician practices. By 2023, nearly 80% of physicians were employed by for-profit hospitals or other corporate entities. For instance, the health insurance behemoth UnitedHealth...

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]]> Anti-Domination and the Future of Progressive Administration https://lpeproject.org/blog/anti-domination-and-the-future-of-progressive-administration/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11658 Our governing institutions are undergoing a dramatic and dangerous transformation. The Trump Administration, aided by its allies in Congress and the Judiciary, is seeking to tear down and remake our basic institutions in a more authoritarian mode. One central task of the current moment is to slow and stop this transformation. Yet as Luke Herrine observed in these pages earlier this spring...

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]]> Housing Justice and the Administrative State After Chevron https://lpeproject.org/blog/housing-justice-and-the-administrative-state-after-chevron/ Wed, 28 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11609 Over the past few years, the Supreme Court has developed several doctrines that empower judges to throw out regulatory actions with which they disagree. These decisions, most notably the abandonment of Chevron deference in Loper Bright, represent a fundamental shift in both political and economic power. They also threaten to undermine the use of administrative rulemaking to promote social justice.

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]]> Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship https://lpeproject.org/blog/some-of-the-best-new-lpe-and-lpe-adjacent-scholarship-2/ Thu, 22 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11591 With summer just around the corner, are you looking to indulge in some juicy, page-turning scholarship? As always, the Blog has you covered. So throw those Capri-Suns in a cooler, grab your favorite e-reader, and load up some of our favorite forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles for your next trip to the beach, park, or (let’s be real) library. ** ** ** Sahil Agrawal, Melissa Barber...

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]]> The Right Understands That All Governance Is Data Governance https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-right-understands-that-all-governance-is-data-governance/ Mon, 12 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11573 During the rapidly unfolding constitutional crisis of the past three months, nearly every day has brought a new, alarming development. While many of these actions — tariffs imposed on uninhabited islands, the “mistaken” letter of demands sent to Harvard, Hegseth’s texting habits — reflect an equal combination of incompetence and malice, two of the most worrying developments appear more strategic...

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]]> Beyond Redistribution: Rethinking UBI and the Politics of Automation https://lpeproject.org/blog/beyond-redistribution-rethinking-ubi-and-the-politics-of-automation/ Wed, 07 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11562 Without a Department of Education, who will assist the borrowers of billions of dollars of student aid? Without Social Security field offices or Internal Revenue Service staff, who will administer benefits or investigate tax fraud? And with a massively reduced workforce at the General Services Administration, who will handle the procurement of more than $84 billion of products and services for...

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