Bureaucracy is everywhere. Unelected bureaucrats are a key link between government and
citizens, between policy and implementation. Bureaucratic politics constitutes a growing …

How are politicians informed and who do politicians seek information from? The role of
information has been at the center for research on legislative organizations but there is a …

Lobbying is a potential source of corruption but is also a valuable source of information for
policy-makers. We analyze a game-theoretic model that shows how the threat of corruption …

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

In this article, I argue that the need to motivate bureaucrats to invest in high‐quality policy
implementation alters the appeal of executive unilateralism. If executive orders are less …

How does the scope of review affect bureaucratic policymaking? To explore this question, I
consider a policymaking environment in which an expert agency develops policy that is …

We develop a theory of policymaking between an agent and an overseer, with a principal
whose welfare is affected by agent-overseer interactions. The agent can increase the quality …

We provide a model of dark money in elections. An ideologically extreme donor with private
information about candidate ideology and quality can advertise on behalf of a candidate …

Theories of political accountability often consider voter-politician interactions in isolation
from politician-bureaucrat interactions. We study a model of electoral accountability with a …

Congress has long exercised its power to oversee the executive branch. Important research
has examined empirical patterns in congressional investigations, finding institutional …