The study of the politics of regulation has followed two distinct paths in recent years.“New
institutionalism” research has focused primarily on the policy-making process, particularly …

In life, delegation is fundamental. But it is difficult, especially when attempted internationally,
as in the long delegation chains to the United Nations family and other global governance …

Bayesian methods are increasingly being used in the social sciences, as the problems
encountered lend themselves so naturally to the subjective qualities of Bayesian …

In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million
individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes …

Since the early 1960s, scholarly thinking on the power of US presidents has rested on these
words:" Presidential power is the power to persuade." Power, in this formulation, is strictly …

The nature of the presidency in American constitutional governance cannot be understood
without reference to norms. 1 These unwritten or informal rules of political behavior provide …

Scholarship on distributive politics focuses almost exclusively on the internal operations of
Congress, paying particular attention to committees and majority parties. This article …

Nearly five hundred times in the past century, American presidents have deployed the
nation's military abroad, on missions ranging from embassy evacuations to full-scale wars …

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the
intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been …

The responsiveness of government agencies to elected officials is a central question in
democratic governance. A key source of variation in responsiveness is agency structure. Yet …