The impact of money on politics—whether through campaign finance, lobbying, or
independent expenditure—raises key normative questions about democratic representation …

Conflict between agencies and outsiders—whether private stakeholders, state governments,
or Congress—is the primary focus of administrative law. But battles also rage within the …

The lion's share of policy in the United States is made by administrative agencies. Agencies
not only make policy choices, they must also implement policy effectively. Oversight …

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 …

Voters are frequently ill-equipped to monitor politicians' actions. Politicians are expected to
implement projects, whose benefits sometimes partially accrue to interest groups (IGs) and …

In setting prices for physician services, Medicare solicits input from a committee that
evaluates proposals from industry. The committee itself comprises members from industry; …

We provide an instrumental theory of extreme campaign platforms. By adopting an extreme
platform, a previously mainstream party with a relatively small probability of winning further …

An organization must select among competing projects that differ in their payoff
consequences for its members. Each agent chooses a project and exerts effort affecting its …

It is often said that the only constant is change itself. As time passes, the population grows,
new technologies are invented, and the skills, demographics, and norms of the populace …

We analyze a model of policy making in which only one actor (eg, a bureaucratic agency or
a well-funded interest group) has the capacity to develop high-quality policy proposals. By …