Though Congress often delegates many varied tasks to public agencies, each agency can
usually claim a primary mandate that is reflected in its organic or enabling legislation. For …

Rulemaking is among the most important and controversial functions perfonned by public
agencies. One of the most persistent and serious problems in rulemaking is delay in the …

This work addresses the question of how, and how effectively, elected politicians can exert
ex ante influence over the policy choices of regulatory agencies. In order to test the …

Abstract Structure and process theorists (McCubbins, Noll, and Weingast, among others),
argue that the Administrative Procedures Act establishes a privileged position for the …

Programs administered by the US Department of Energy under the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 were designed to spur investment in clean energy and …

Assessing potential effects of flow regulation on southeastern warmwater fish assemblages
is problematic because of high species richness and poor knowledge of habitat …

How effective are procedural controls? Why are they effective or ineffective? One way
politicians and courts try to influence the decisions of administrative agencies is by imposing …

Innovation by “groping along,” in which appointed public officials experiment during program
implementation after little, if any, initial planning and analysis, has been promoted as a more …

In 1787, in response to worries about an impotent federal government, James Madison
unsuccessfully proposed a constitutional provision that would have allowed Congress to …

We studied six interagency negotiations covering Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) hydroelectric power licenses. Negotiations occurred between state and federal …