International public administrations (IPAs) have become an essential feature of global
governance, contributing to what some have described as the'bureaucratization of world …

Scholars have long acknowledged that legislators strategically employ procedure to
advance policy preferences. But evidence for this view is confined to the lawmaking process …

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 …

Abstract Vast literature studies Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs). We contribute by
studying the benefits of independence when the agent's work is relational and by studying …

The ability of presidents to unilaterally shape administrative policymaking challenges a
foundation of congressional power: Rarely can Congress statutorily veto administrative …

Donald Trump has completed almost three years in office and has declared that his tenure
will be marked by deregulation. Thus, it is timely and appropriate to consider what the …

This paper studies the link between lateral mobility and promotions. The first part of the
paper extends the theoretical literature by incorporating lateral moves into a job assignment …

Notwithstanding the voluminous studies of accountability, little is known about its internal
mechanism and its controversial relationship with blame avoidance. Based on the …

Influence-seeking by outside groups is widespread in the federal bureaucracy, as evidenced
by public expenditure data. But less is known about the strategies that underlie these …

We introduce readers to an advocacy tactic that is largely unknown to scholars: lobbying the
US President's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). We first present an …