Reforming the FCC

1. Papers & Articles

• Abbot, Alden F., “The Case Against Federal Statutory and Judicial Deadlines: A Cost Benefit Appraisal,” Administrative Law Review, 39 Spring 1987: 171-204.

• Adelstein, Jonathan, “Statement Regarding the Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in the Market for Delivery of Video Programming,” 27 Nov. 2007. Available at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-278454A4.pdf.

• Adelstein, Jonathan, “Testimony at the Federal Communications Commission Oversight Hearing,” 13 Dec. 2007. Available at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-278905A1.pdf.

• Atkinson, Robert C., “Telecom Regulation For the 21st Century: Avoiding Gridlock, Adapting to Change,” Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, 4 Spring 2006: 379-408.

• Bauer, Johannes M., “Dynamic effects of network neutrality,” International Journal of Communication, 1 2007: 531-547. Available at: http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/156/79tprg.

• Bosworth, Martin H., “Congress Passes Broadband Data Improvement Act,” ConsumerAffairs.com, 2 Oct. 2008. Available at: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/10/congress_broadband.html.

• Brumfield, Cynthia, “The FCC is the Worst Communicator in Washington,” IP Democracy, 5 Sept. 2007. Available at: http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2007/09/05/#002640.

• Brumfield, Cynthia, “FCC Late-Night Vote Underscores Disarray at the Agency,” IP Democracy, 28 Nov. 2007. Available at: http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2007/11/28/#002781.

• Brumfield, Cynthia, “VZW Sues Over 700 MHz Rules. . . and May Win,” IP Democracy, 13 Sept. 2007. Available at: http://www.ipdemocracy.com/archives/2007/09/13/#002651.

• Carter, Laura, “Letter Regarding Ex Parte Communication,” 30 Apr. 2008. Available at: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6520006854.

• Cauley, Leslie, “New Rules Could Rock Wireless World,” USA Today, 10 July 2007. Available at: http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/telecom/2007-07-09-wireless-telecom_n.htm.

• Cherry, Barbara A., “Institutional Governance for Essential Industries Under Complexity: Providing Resilience Within the Rule of Law,” CommLaw Conspectus (forthcoming). Available at: http://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/cmcl/papers/2008/cherry.pdf.

• Clarck, Drew, “Industry Experts Disagree on Best Path to Improve FCC,” Technology Daily, 24 Mar. 2005. Available at: http://www.nationaljournal.com/pubs/techdaily/pmedition/2005/tp050324.htm.

• Commission of the European Communities, “Communication on future networks and the internet,” 29 Sept. 2008. Available at: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/docs/future_internet/act_future_networks_internet_en.pdf.

• Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, “Committee on Independent Regulatory Commissions Task Force Report 95,” 1949.

• Cooper, Mark, “Junk Science and Administrative Abuse in the Effort of the FCC to Eliminate Limits on Media Concentration,” 2008. Available at: http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/2/3/3/1/1/p233118_index.html.

• Copps, Michael J., “Statement Regarding Promoting Diversification of Ownership in the Broadcasting Services,” 18 Dec. 2007. Available at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-07-217A3.pdf.

• Copps, Michael J., and Jonathan S. Adelstein, “Joint Press Release Regarding Release of Media Ownership Order,” 4 Feb. 2008. Available at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-280001A1.doc.

• Crovitz, L. Gordon, “Information Age: From Wikinomics to Government 2.0,” Wall Street Journal, 12 May 2008, A13.

• De Vries, Jean Pierre, “Internet Governance as Forestry: Deriving Policy Principles from Managed Complex Adaptive Systems,” 12 Aug. 2008. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1229482.

• Department of Justice, “Antitrust Division Policy Guide to Merger Remedies,” 2004. Available at: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/public/guidelines/205108.pdf.

• Department of Justice Press Release, “Justice Department Will Not Challenge News Corp.’s Acquisition of Hughes Electronics Corp.,” 19 Dec. 2003. Available at: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2003/December/03_at_714.htm.

• Dingell, John D., “Letter to Kevin J. Martin,” 3 Dec. 2007. Available at: http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_110/110-ltr.120307.FCC.Martin.transparency.pdf.

• Dunbar, John, “FCC Shrouds Rulemaking in Secrecy,” The News and Observer, 5 Sept. 2007. Available at: http://www.newsobserver.com/print/wednesday/front/story/692625.html.

• Eggerton, John, “Martin: FCC Doesn’t Need Major Reform,” Broadcasting & Cable, 15 Jan. 2008. Available at: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6522942.html.

• Europa Press Release, “Commission Consults on How to Put Europe Into the Lead of the Transition to Web 3.0,” 29 Sept. 2008. Available at: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/1422&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=nl.

• Farrell, Joseph, and Philip J. Weiser, “Modularity, Vertical Integration, and Open Access Policies: Towards a Convergence of Antitrust and Regulation in the Internet Age,” Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, 17 2003: 85-134.

• Federal Communications Commission, 2002 Biennial Regulatory Review – Review of the Commission’s Broadcast Ownership Rules and Other Rules Adopted Pursuant to Section 202 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Report & Order & Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 18 FCC Rcd. 13,620 (2003).

• Federal Communications Commission, 2006 Quadrennial Regulatory Review – Review of the Commission’s Broadcast Ownership Rules and Other Rules Adopted Pursuant to Section 202 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Report and Order, 23 FCC Rcd. 2010 (2007).

• Federal Communications Commission, “Homeland Security Action Plan,” 2003. Available at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-236428A2.pdf.

• Federal Communications Commission, “Spectrum Policy Task Force Report,” 2002. Available at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-228542A1.pdf.

• Federal Communications Commission, Strategic Goals for Broadband. Available at: http://www.fcc.gov/broadband/.

• Federal Communications Commission, Strategic Goals for Competition. Available at: http://www.fcc.gov/competition.

• Federal Communications Commission, Strategic Goals for Media. Available at: http://www.fcc.gov/mediagoals/.

• Federal Communications Commission, Strategic Goals for Proceedings and Initiatives. Available at: http://wireless.fcc.gov/spectrum/proceeding.htm.

• Federal Communications Commission Press Release, “FCC Adopts 13th Annual Report to Congress on Video Competition and Notice of Inquiry for the 14th Annual Report,” 27 Nov. 2007. Available at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-278454A1.pdf.

• Federal Trade Commission, “Online Behavioral Advertising: Moving the Discussion Forward to Possible Self-Regulatory Principles,” 2007. Available at: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2007/12/P859900stmt.pdf.

• Formal Complaint of Free Press and Public Knowledge Against Comcast Corporation for Secretly Degrading Peer-to-Peer Applications, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 23 FCC Rcd. 13,028 (2008).

• Fung, Archon et al., "The Effectiveness of Regulatory Disclosure Policies," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25(1) Winter 2006. Available at: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/taubmancenter/transparency/downloads/jpam06.pdf.

• Fung, Archon et al., “The Political Economy of Transparency: What Makes Disclosure Policies Effective?,” 2004. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=766287.

• Furchtgott-Roth, Harold W., “Testimony Before the Antitrust Modernization Commission,” 5 Dec. 2005. Available at: http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/amc/commission_hearings/pdf/Furchtgott_Roth_statement.pdf.

• Geller, Henry, "A Modest Proposal to Reform The Federal Communications Commission," written for the Rand Corporation (April 1974). Available at: http://fcc-reform.org/sites/fcc-reform.org/files/geller-modest-proposal-1974.pdf.

• Goodman, Ellen P., “Stealth Marketing and Editorial Integrity,” Texas Law Review, 85 2006: 83-152.

• Government Accountability Office, “FCC Has Made Some Progress in the Management of its Enforcement Program But Faces Limitations, and Additional Actions Are Needed,” 2008. Available at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08125.pdf.

• Government Accountability Office, “FCC Needs to Improve Its Ability to Monitor and Determine the Extent of Competition in Dedicated Access Services,” 2006. Available at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0780.pdf.

• Government Accountability Office, “FCC Should Take Steps to Ensure Equal Access to Rulemaking Information,” 2007. Available at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d071046.pdf.

• Government Accountability Office, “Further Reform is Needed to Address Long-Standing Problems,” 2001. Available at: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01821.pdf.

• Hausman, Jerry A., “Valuing the Effect of Regulation on New Services in Telecommunications,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Microeconomics, 1997.

• Hazlett, Thomas W., “A Rejoinder to Weiser and Hatfield on Spectrum Rights,” George Mason Law Review, 15 2008: 1031-39. Available at: http://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/subsites/gmulawreview/files/15-4/05-HAZLETT_II.pdf.

• Hearn, Ted, “Federal Incommunicado Commission,” Multichannel News, 8 Aug. 2007. Available at: http://www.multichannel.com/blog/1830000183/post/450012845.html.

• Hearn, Ted, “Watching the Martin Watch,” Multichannel News, 21 Jan. 2008. Available at: http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6524092.html.

• Hearn, Ted, “The Winds of Change,” Multichannel News, 28 Jan. 2008. Available at: http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6525874.html.

• Hetcher, Steven, “The FTC as Internet Privacy Norm Entrepreneur,” Vanderbilt Law Review, 53 2000: 2041-62.

• Holling, C.S. et al., “In Quest of a Theory of Adaptive Change,” in Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems. Island Press, 2002. Available at: http://www.resalliance.org/files/1137008896_chapter_1.pdf.

• Hundt, Reed, “Speech at the Center for National Policy,” 6 May 1996. Available at: http://www.fcc.gov/Speeches/Hundt/spreh624.txt.

• Hundt, Reed E. & Gregory L. Rosston, “Communications Policy for 2006 and Beyond,” Federal Communications Law Journal, 58 2006: 1-35.

• “IEEE-USA Sends Letter to FCC Urging Improvements in Consideration of Technical Issues,” 6 June 2008. Available at: http://spectrumtalk.blogspot.com/2008/06/ieee-usa-sends-letter-to-fcc-urging.html.

• Johnson, Nicolas, “Towers of Babel: The Chaos in Radio Spectrum Utilization and Allocation,” Law and Contemporary Problems, 34 1969: 505-534.

• Johnson, Nicholas and John Jay Dystel, “A Day in the Life: The Federal Communications Commission,” 82 Yale L. J. 1575 (1973), available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~cyberlaw/lem97/dayinlif.html

• Kennard, William E., “A New Federal Communications Commission for the 21st Century,” 1999. Available at: http://www.fcc.gov/Reports/fcc21.html.

• Kovacic, William E., “The Federal Trade Commission and Congressional Oversight of Antitrust Enforcement,” Tulsa Law Journal, 17(4) 1982: 587-671.

• Landis, James, Report on Regulatory Agencies to the President-elect. U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1960.

• Lasar, Matthew, “FCC Insider: This Place is Hell; Silent Protest Planned,” Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2008. Available at: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080316-fcc-insider-this-place-is-hell-silent-protest-planned.html.

• Lempert, Robert J. et al., “Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis” RAND Report MR-1626-RPC, 2003. Available at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1626/index.html.

• Lessig, Lawrence, “Reboot the FCC,” Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2008. Available at: http://www.newsweek.com/id/176809.

• Martin, Kevin J., “Press Statement Regarding Media Ownership,” 18 Dec. 2007. Available at: http://www.fcc.gov/kjm121807-ownership.pdf.

• Martin, Kevin J., “Testimony at the Federal Communications Commission Oversight Hearing,” 13 Dec. 2007. Available at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-278904A1.pdf.

• McCraw, Thomas K., Prophets of Regulation. Harvard University Press, 1984.

• McDowell, Robert M., “Statement Regarding the Annual Assessment of the Status of Competition in the Market for Delivery of Video Programming,” 27 Nov. 2007. Available at: http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-278454A6.pdf.

• Minow, Newton, “Suggestions for Improvement of the Administrative Process,” Administrative Law Review, 15 1963: 146-153.

• Napoli, Philip M., “Paradoxes of Media Policy Analysis: Implications for Public Interest Media Regulation,” McGannon Center Working Paper, 2008. Available at: http://fordham.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=mcga...

• Napoli, Philip M., and Joe Karaganis, “Toward a Federal Data Agenda for Communications Policymaking,” McGannon Center Working Paper, 2008.  Available at: http://programs.ssrc.org/media/dataconsortium/dataagenda.

• Noah, Lars, “Administrative Arm-Twisting in the Shadow of Congressional Delegations of Authority,” Wisconson Law Review, 1997: 873-941.

• Nou, Jennifer “Regulating the Rulemakers: A Proposal for Deliberative Cost-Benefit Analysis,” Yale Law and Policy Review, 26 Spring 2008: 601-44.

• Ofcom, “A Case Study on Public Sector Mergers and Regulatory Structures,” 2006. Available at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/about/accoun/case_study/case_study.pdf.

• Ofcom, “Principles for Analysing Self- and Co-Regulation: Statement on Self- and Co-Regulation,” 10 Dec. 2008. Available at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/coregulation/statement/.

• Posner, Richard A., “Taxation By Regulation,” Bell Journal of Economic and Management Science, 2 Spring 1971: 22-50.

• Posner, Richard A., “Theories of Economic Regulation,” Bell Journal of Economic and Management Science, 5 Fall 1974: 335-358.

• Posner, Richard, “Re-Regulate Financial Markets?,” The Becker-Posner Blog, 28 Apr. 2008. Available at: http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2008/04/reregulate_fina.html.

• Public Knowledge and Media Access Project Filings, MB Docket 07-57, 17 July 2007 & 10 July 2008.

• Puzzanghera, Jim, “Criticism of the FCC’s Chairman is Widely Aired,” L.A. Times, 10 Dec. 2007, C1.

• Rachlinski, Jeffrey J., and Cynthia R. Farina, “Cognitive Psychology and Optimal Government Design,” Cornell Law Review, 87 2002: 549-615.

• Robinson, David et al., “Government Data and the Invisible Hand,” Yale Journal of Law and Technology, forthcoming 2008. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1138083.

• Robinson, Glen O., “Radio Spectrum Regulation: The Administrative Process and the Problems of Institutional Reform,” Minnesota Law Review, 53 1969: 1179-1268.

• Rossi, Jim, “Overcoming Parochialism: State Administrative Procedure and Institutional Design,” Administrative Law Review, 53 Spring 2001: 551-73.

• Schatz, Amy, “Industry Seethes as FCC’s Martin Sets New Curbs,” The Wall Street Journal, 18 Dec. 2007, A1.

• Schneider, Volker and Johannes M. Bauer, “Governance: Prospects of Complexity Theory in Revisiting System Theory,” 14 April 2007. Available at: http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Verwiss/Schneider/ePapers/MPSA2007Paper_vs_jmb.pdf.

• Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction, Infrastructure and Operating Data Gathering, Memorandum Opinion & Order & Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, WC Dkt. No. 08-190, 2008 WL 4148882 (2008).

• Shooshan, Harry M., “A Modest Proposal for Restructuring the Federal Communications Commission,” Federal Communications Law Journal, 50 1998: 637-58.

• Sterman, John D., “All models are wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist: The Jay Wright Forrester Prize Lecture.” System Dynamics Review 18(4) Winter 2002: 501–531. Available at: http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/All_Models_Are_Wrong_(SDR).pdf.

• Swords, Christy, “Statement at the House of Lords Select Committee,” 24 Apr. 2007. Available at: www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/correctedEV920070424.pdf.

• “Ten Conclusions from the Resilience Project.” Available at: http://www.geog.mcgill.ca/faculty/peterson/susfut/rNetFindings.html.

• Weiser, Philip J., “Alfred Kahn as a Case Study of a Political Entrepreneur: An Essay in Honor of His 90th Birthday,” Review of Network Economics, forthcoming 2009. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1263148.

• Weiser, Philip J., “Exploring Self Regulatory Strategies for Network Management,” 25 August 2008. Available at: http://www.silicon-flatirons.org/documents/publications/summits/WeiserNetworkManagement.pdf.

• Weiser, Philip J., “FCC Reform and the Future of Telecommunications Policy,” forthcoming 2009.

• Weiser, Philip J., “Internet Governance, Standard Setting, and Self-Regulation,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 28 2001: 822-46.

• Weiser, Philip J., “The Untapped Promise of Wireless Spectrum,” The Hamilton Project of the Brookings Institution, Discussion Paper No. 2008-08. Available at: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/07_wireless_weiser/07_wireless_weiser.pdf.

• Weiser, Philip J., and Dale Hatfield, “Spectrum Policy Reform and the Next Frontier of Property Rights,” George Mason Law Review, 15 Spring 2008: 549-609. Available at: http://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/subsites/gmulawreview/files/15-3/01-WEISER.pdf.

• Whitt, Richard, “Pro-consumer Spectrum  Auction Rules at Risk at the FCC?,” Google Public Policy Blog, 3 Oct. 2007. Available at: http://rcrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070926/FREE/70926006/1005.

2. Books

• Caro, Robert A., Means of Ascent. Vintage Books, 1991.

• Christensen, Clayton M., The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Harvard Business Press, 1997.

• Gunderson, Lance H. and C. S. Holling, Panarchy: Understanding transformations in human and natural systems. Island Press, 2002.

• Tapscott, Don, and Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. Portfolio, 2006.

3. Legislation, Rules & Judgments

• Amendment of Part 15 Regarding New Requirements and Measurement Guidelines for Access Broadband Over Power Line Systems, Report and Order, 19 FCC Rcd. 21,265 (2004).

• American Radio Relay League, Inc. v. FCC, 524 F.3d 227 (D.C. Cir. 2008).

• Applications for Consent to the Transfer of  Control of Licenses and Section 214 Authorizations by Time Warner Inc. and America Online, Inc., Transferors, to AOL Time Warner Inc., Transferee, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 16 FCC Rcd. 6547 (2001).

• Applications for Consent to the Transfer of  Control of Licenses and Section 214 Authorizations by Time Warner Inc. and America Online, Inc., Transferors, to AOL Time Warner Inc., Transferee, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 18 FCC Rcd. 16,835 (2003).

• Applications for Consent to the Transfer of Control of Licenses XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., Transferor to Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., Transferee, Memorandum Opinion & Order & Report & Order, 23 FCC Rcd. 12,348 (2008).

• Applications of Ameritech Corp., Transferor, and SBC Communications, Inc., Transferee, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 14 FCC Rcd. 14,712 (1999).

• Connection of Terminal Equipment to the Telephone Network, 47 C.F.R. § 68.

• Development of Nationwide Broadband Data to Evaluate Reasonable and Timely Deployment of Advanced Services to All Americans, Improvement of Wireless Broadband Subscribership Data, and Development of Data on Interconnected Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) Subscribership, Report & Order & Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 23 FCC Rcd. 9691, (2008).

• E-911 Grant Program, 73 Fed. Reg. 57,567 (3 Oct. 2008).

• Establishment of an Interference Temperature Metric to Quantify and Manage Interference and to Expand Available Unlicensed Operation in Certain Fixed, Mobile and Satellite Frequency Bands, Order, 22 FCC Rcd. 8938 (2007).

• General Motors Corporation and Hughes Electronics Corporation, Transferors, and the News Corporation Limited, Transferee, 19 FCC Rcd. 473 (2004).

• Shurz Communications Inc. v. FCC, 982 F.2d 1043 (7th Cir. 1992).

• Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., Order, 23 FCC Rcd. 12,301 (2008).

• Small Refiner Lead Phase-Down Task Force v. EPA, 705 F.2d 506 (D.C. Cir. 1983).

• Sprint Nextel Corp. v. FCC, 524 F.3d 253 (D.C. Cir. 2008).