y agencies, "tighter
regulation of activities which were hitherto unregulated or were
at most self regulated" (182) and more intrusion by government
into people's everyday lives. This shift toward stronger and more
pervasive government has manifested itself in many ways. Such new
tendencies include: "a more anticipatory approach to problem
solving;" (183) the introduction of "new rules of the game for
many policy areas" (which were designed to "change organizational
structures in both the public and private sectors and
relationships within sectors);" (185) and the reallocation of
Richardson points out that this accretion of government
power has been subject to various constraints. Privatization and
deregulation were not possible in the case, for instance, of the
nuclear energy industry which is unsaleable. Compromises have
also been made where public policy goals conflicted, such as
where the goal of making sales of state enterprises to private
investors attractive could not be achieved unless a measure of
state subsidy or restrictions on compe
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