Regulatory opposition shifts from repealing laws to starving enforcement agencies of resources

Evidence

If countercontrol fails in the defanging phase, the battle shifts to weakening the implementation of the regulatory rules by deregulating the regulators, watering down their oversight rules or cutting their budgets so they lack the personnel and resources to enforce the law adequately. This strategy is known as “starve the beast.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1528

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘starve the beast’ as a concrete regulatory-weakening strategy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1528
• XREF: connects to: Funding takings compensation out of agency budgets coerces agencies to self-curb enforcement — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 579; Organizations deny environmental change to protect their established roles and resources. — Robert B. McCalla, NATO’s persistence after the cold war, 71