Public Choice Track Changes

February 21st, 2013

Wouldn’t it be cool to measure the influence of rent-seekers by comparing proposed regulations as drafted by lobbyists, and the actual regulation imposed by the government? With a cool tool called LobbyPlag (great name), you can. For now, the tool is limited to European Union laws, but I’d imagine this would be viable in the U.S. Here is one comparison:

lobbyplag

How I’d love to run this on the Affordable Care Act…

H/T Legal Informatics Blog