Who Polices the Administrative State?

Volume: 112, Issue: 4, Pages: 874 - 890
Published: Sep 17, 2018
Abstract
Scholarship on oversight of the bureaucracy typically conceives of legislatures as unitary actors. But most oversight is conducted by individual legislators who contact agencies directly. I acquire the correspondence logs of 16 bureaucratic agencies and re-evaluate the conventional proposition that ideological disagreement drives oversight. I identify the effect of this disagreement by exploiting the transition from George Bush to Barack Obama,...
Paper Details
Title
Who Polices the Administrative State?
Published Date
Sep 17, 2018
Volume
112
Issue
4
Pages
874 - 890
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