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Many regulatory agencies were initially created during the Progressive Era or the New Deal partly through belief in their capacity to regulate industry by apolitical & scientific criteria. M. Bernstein (Regulating Business by Independent Commission, Princeton: Princeton U Press, 1955) & other writers have argued that such agencies typically become 'captured' by the businesses they are supposedly regulating. This concept of 'clientele capture' is analyzed. Agencies are classified as distributive, redistributive, self-regulatory, & policing or regulatory. Many supposedly regulatory agencies were, in fact, initially intended as means to industry self-regulation. The suggestion that decay commences with the loss of proregulation consistencies is evaluated through case studies that suggest conditions under which an agency is likely to actively develop a proregulation constituency, & conditions under which such a constituency, however developed, is able to maintain agency performance after public concern with the issue is reduced. 2 Tables, Notes. Modified HA.

We add the concept of imposed interdependencies to components of the Advocacy Coalition Framework to derive four hypotheses regarding coordinated behavior in overlapping geographic and functional policy subsystems. More specifically, we address: (1) whether imposed interdependencies affect the extent to which shared beliefs are related to coordinated behavior; and (2) which types of beliefs are the principal `glue' of coordination. We then examine the implications of these hypotheses in an empirical analysis of ally networks in San Francisco Bay-Delta water policy. Our empirical results suggest that both belief congruence and functional interdependence are important for understanding coordination. Further, the types of beliefs critical to coordination are consistent with the underlying rationale - but not necessarily the specific hypotheses - of the Advocacy Coalition Framework.