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The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: Coregulation and Consumer Protection in Food Safety, 1946–2002

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2021

ASHTON W. MERCK
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , December 2021 , pp. 921 - 929
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Stigler, George J. “The Theory of Economic Regulation.” The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science 2, no. 1 (1971): 3–21. https://doi.org/10.2307/3003160.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wengle, Susanne. “When Experimentalist Governance Meets Science-Based Regulations: The Case of Food Safety Regulations.” Regulation & Governance 10, no. 3 (2016): 262–283. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12067.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Wholesome Poultry Products Act, Pub. L. No. 90-492, 82 Stat. 791 (1968).Google Scholar
Boudia, Soraya, and Jas, Nathalie, eds. Powerless Science? Science and Politics in a Toxic World. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.Google Scholar
Balleisen, Edward J. Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.Google Scholar
Beck, Ulrich. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. New York: Sage, 1992.Google Scholar
Breyer, Stephen G. Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.Google Scholar
Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. New York: Knopf, 2008.Google Scholar
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. 3rd printing. New York: Norton, 1992.Google Scholar
Hamilton, Shane. Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Horowitz, Roger. Negro and White, Unite and Fight! A Social History of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, 1930–90. Working Class in American History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Horowitz, Roger. Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, Transformation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Hughes, Kathleen. Return to the Jungle: How the Reagan Administration Is Imperiling the Nation’s Meat and Poultry Inspection Program. Ralph Nader Center for Responsive Law, 1983.Google Scholar
Kolko, Gabriel. The Triumph of Conservatism: A Re-Interpretation of American History. New York: The Free Press, 1963.Google Scholar
Lytton, Timothy D. Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.Google Scholar
Marcus, Alan I. Cancer from Beef: DES, Federal Food Regulation, and Consumer Confidence. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.Google Scholar
McCraw, Thomas K. Prophets of Regulation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Mitford, Jessica. The American Way of Death. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963.Google Scholar
Nader, Ralph. Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile. New York: Grossman, 1965.Google Scholar
National Research Council (U.S.), ed. Meat and Poultry Inspection: The Scientific Basis of the Nation’s Program. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Nestle, Marion. Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety. Updated and Expanded. California Studies in Food and Culture 5. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Ogle, Maureen. In Meat We Trust: An Unexpected History of Carnivore America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.Google Scholar
Pachirat, Timothy. Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Phillips-Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.Google Scholar
Rodgers, Daniel T. Age of Fracture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Silbergeld, Ellen K. Chickenizing Farms & Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Specht, Joshua. Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.Google Scholar
Striffler, Steve. Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Waterhouse, Benjamin C. Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Zeide, Anna. Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Balleisen, Edward J. “The Prospects for Effective Coregulation in the United States: A Historian’s View from the Early Twenty-First Century.” In Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation, edited by Balleisen, Edward J. and Moss, David A., 443–481. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Booker, Matthew. “Before The Jungle: The Atlantic Origins of US Food Safety Regulation.” Global Environment 11, no. 1 (2018): 12–35. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2018.110102.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Coglianese, Cary, and Lazer, David. “Management‐based Regulation: Prescribing Private Management to Achieve Public Goals.” Law & Society Review 37, no. 4 (2003): 691–730.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Food & Water Watch. “Setting the Record Straight on the Obama Administration’s Privatized Poultry Inspection System.” Food & Water Watch (blog), November 6, 2015, https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/insight/setting-record-straight-obama-administration%E2%80%99s-privatized-poultry-inspection-system.Google Scholar
Fritzsche, Tom. “Unsafe at These Speeds: Alabama’s Poultry Industry and Its Disposable Workers.” Southern Poverty Law Center/Alabama Appleseed, 2013. https://www.splcenter.org/20130228/unsafe-these-speedsGoogle Scholar
Martinez, Garcia, Marian, Paul Verbruggen, and Fearne, Andrew. “Risk-Based Approaches to Food Safety Regulation: What Role for Co-Regulation?” Journal of Risk Research 16, no. 9 (2013): 1101–1021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Horwitz, Robert B. “Understanding Deregulation.” Theory and Society 15, no. 1/2 (1986): 139–174.Google Scholar
Merck, Ashton W. “Fox Guarding the Henhouse,” PhD diss., Duke University, 2020.Google Scholar
Novak, William. “A Revisionist History of Regulatory Capture.” In Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It, edited by Carpenter, Daniel and Moss, David A., 49–56. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Oxfam America. “No Relief: Denial of Bathroom Breaks in the Poultry Industry.” Oxfam America’s Campaign for Poultry Worker Justice, 2016. https://www.oxfamamerica.org/static/media/files/No_Relief_Embargo.pdf.Google Scholar
Peterson, Esther. “Representing the Consumer Interest in the Federal Government.” Michigan Law Review 64, no. 7 (1966): 1323–1328. https://doi.org/10.2307/1287137.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Posner, Richard. “The Concept of Regulatory Capture: A Short, Inglorious History.” In Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It, edited by Carpenter, Daniel and Moss, David A., 25–48. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Sharma, Lisa L., Teret, Stephen P., and Brownell, Kelly D.. “The Food Industry and Self-Regulation: Standards to Promote Success and to Avoid Public Health Failures.” American Journal of Public Health 100, no. 2 (2010): 240–246.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sheingate, Adam. “Still a Jungle.” Democracy, no. 25 (2012) https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/25/still-a-jungle/.Google Scholar
Stigler, George J. “The Theory of Economic Regulation.” The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science 2, no. 1 (1971): 3–21. https://doi.org/10.2307/3003160.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wengle, Susanne. “When Experimentalist Governance Meets Science-Based Regulations: The Case of Food Safety Regulations.” Regulation & Governance 10, no. 3 (2016): 262–283. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12067.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
The Huffington Post Google Scholar
The Government Standard Google Scholar
Executive Office of the President of the United States. America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again. Washington, DC: US Government Publishing Office, 2017.Google Scholar
Wholesome Meat Act, Pub. L. No. 90-201, 81 Stat. 584 (1967).Google Scholar
Wholesome Poultry Products Act, Pub. L. No. 90-492, 82 Stat. 791 (1968).Google Scholar