How so?  I understand that doing research on regulation is by its nature political, but that doesn&#x27;t mean &#x27;ideology driven&#x27;.  For instance, you may argue from this data that Obama is the most-regulating president in history.  Or, as some researchers have done, you may argue that regulation hasn&#x27;t killed dynamism (see work by Goldschlag and Tabarrok).  Data is data, what you do with it may be ideological or not...