Reviews

"A finely detailed work of scholarship that is particularly strong in its review of the various theories of political and regulatory behavior."--Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
"Well worth recommending. Horwitz has unusual command over a complex subject, writes with a real concern to set the historical record straight, and, unlike many theorists in the area, has no particular ideological axe to grind. His judgments are balanced and nuanced, his curiosity keen, and his scholarship deep."--Contemporary Sociology
"Horwitz has placed the entire history of telecommunications regulation against a background of regulatory policy in general and has written a very effective account of the history of telecommunications regulation in general. The telecommunications section in particular is first rate and won't be readily superseded."--Brian Winston, Pennsylvania State University
"Ironies abound in this lucid critique of a reform movement that has succeeded mainly in confounding its oddly coupled instigators. With a merciful minimum of academic jargon, Horwitz probes the many-splendored realities of deregulation....A cogent analysis of the mischief that can occur when ideologues join forces to apply political solutions to socioeconomic problems....For anyone interested in how the law of unintended consequences works in the real
world."--Kirkus Reviews
"A finely detailed work of scholarship that is particularly strong in its review of the various theories of political and regulatory behavior."--Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
"Well worth recommending. Horwitz has unusual command over a complex subject, writes with a real concern to set the historical record straight, and, unlike many theorists in the area, has no particular ideological axe to grind. His judgments are balanced and nuanced, his curiosity keen, and his scholarship deep."--Contemporary Sociology
"Horwitz has placed the entire history of telecommunications regulation against a background of regulatory policy in general and has written a very effective account of the history of telecommunications regulation in general. The telecommunications section in particular is first rate and won't be readily superseded."--Brian Winston, Pennsylvania State University
"Ironies abound in this lucid critique of a reform movement that has succeeded mainly in confounding its oddly coupled instigators. With a merciful minimum of academic jargon, Horwitz probes the many-splendored realities of deregulation....A cogent analysis of the mischief that can occur when ideologues join forces to apply political solutions to socioeconomic problems....For anyone interested in how the law of unintended consequences works in the real
world."--Kirkus Reviews