Steven Rashin is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Salem Center at the University of Texas’s Red McCombs School of Business. He studies the private influence on the regulatory process. His work explores how corporations, interest groups, and the general public can change how public policy is implemented by the bureaucracy. Regulations change substantially before they are finalized and his work looks at the methods and mechanisms commenters use to convince agencies to change policy. These changes are not minor; for example, changes to recent regulations have exempted corporations from regulation and limited the types of financial transactions permitted by corporations. He also works on campaign finance.