The Transformation of the Railroad Commission of Texas, 1917–1940: Business-Government Relations and the Importance of Personality, Agency Culture, and Regional Differences
分析了20世纪上半叶德克萨斯州铁路委员会中个性、地区文化对监管政策的影响，揭示了“权力神话”和“石油公民宗教”如何促成石油生产的合作控制并掩盖全球石油业的真实权力来源。
This intensive analysis of the Railroad Commission of Texas during the first half of the twentieth century focuses on the impact of personality and of regional and cultural characteristics on regulatory policy and outcomes. The article suggests that a “myth of power” and a “civil religion” of Texas oil, galvanized by a popular commissioner, both allowed cooperative control of oil production and obscured the real sources of power in the world oil industry.