Regulatory agencies are captured by the industries they oversee

Evidence

Not only would such rulings provoke endless semantic disputes over what violence is, but they also would be challenged on constitutional grounds. Being recipients of campaign contributions and subject to other corporate pressures, legislative bodies and regulatory agencies are heavily influenced by the very industries they are supposed to oversee. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 977

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 977
• XREF: connects to: Regulated industries often capture their own regulators — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 583; Industry capture follows from regulators’ incentives and diffuse public interest — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 584; Regulatory agencies drift toward the interests of the firms they regulate — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2588