Contrary to stylized accounts of policy making in democracies, it is routine for presidents,
governors, and other chief executives to issue directives such as decrees and executive …

Can government govern artificial intelligence (AI)? One of the central questions of AI
governance surrounds state capacity, namely whether government has the ability to …

Concerns about unaccountable executive power have featured recurrently in political
debates from the American founding to today. For many, presidents' use of unilateral power …

Presidential directives are often assumed to be checked only by external actors, like
Congress and the courts. But the internal constraints facing presidents can also be …

Formal presidential authority does not always translate into real influence over policy
outcomes: The bureaucratic actors actually responsible for policy implementation have …

As policy innovation is essential for upscaling responsible innovation, understanding its
relationship to value change (s) occurring or sought in sociotechnical systems is imperative …

Does increasing executive power necessarily decrease accountability? To answer this
question, I develop a two-period signaling model comparing voter welfare in two separation …

Despite a renewed interest in the health of the US administrative state, the absence of
meaningful time-series measures of bureaucratic capacity hinders the testing of core …

Presidents possess vast authority to change policy unilaterally. But their power depends on
the compliance of unelected officials, who typically have more information. We examine the …

This paper develops a dynamic theory of the interaction of organizational capacity and its
institutional context. Higher capacity enables organizations to deliver projects efficiently …