John Scholz

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Dr. John T. Scholz is the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor of Political Science and a Courtesy Professor of Law at Florida State University. As the first political scientist to formulate the "regulation game," [1] which was later extended in influential work on responsive regulation by John Braithwaite and Ian Ayres. [2] Scholz is widely regarded as one of the leading political scientists addressing regulatory enforcement.[ citation needed ]

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Scholz's publications [3] have analyzed government regulatory policies from the federal to the local level involving issues of occupational safety and health, water pollution, and taxation, focusing in particular on enforcement and compliance issues.

Scholz's research analyzes the problems of developing and maintaining cooperative solutions to collective action problems, emphasizing the role of policy networks, private partnerships, and collaborative government programs in resolving collective problems.[ citation needed ] He is a coauthor of Taxpayer Compliance: An Agenda for Research - A National Academy of Sciences Report (with Jeffrey A. Roth and Ann Dryden Witte), Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, and his most recent book is Adaptive Governance and Water Conflict (editor, with Bruce Stiftel), published in 2006 with Resources for the Future.

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  1. J.T. Scholz, "Cooperation, Deterrence and the Ecology of Regulatory Enforcement" (1984) 18 Law & Soc. Rev. 179; J.T. Scholz, "Voluntary Compliance and Regulatory Enforcement" (1984) 6 Law & Pol. 385.
  2. Ian Ayres paper noting the significant of John Scholz's research -- "Comment on Painter". Archived from the original on 2012-07-10. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
  3. John T. Scholoz's CV -- http://www.fsu.edu/~polisci/people/faculty/documents/scholz.pdf%5B%5D