All administrative processes contain points of entry for politics, and the US president's use of
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to review government regulations is no …

Have bureaucrats taken over the decision making role of politicians? This book offers a
direct assessment of the role of bureaucrats in policy making by analysing how they shape …

Many studies have identified a line of influence between interest group lobbying and the
federal bureaucracy's implementation of public policy. These works, however, have often …

The first book to explore the tension between presidents and federal agencies from the
perspective of careerists in the executive branch. Winner of the Herbert A. Simon Book …

Interest groups representing the marginalized regularly neglect advocacy on behalf of their
most vulnerable constituents—those with intersectional disadvantage. Yet, they claim that …

Agencies use notice-and-comment rulemaking to issue countless regulations with
substantial economic stakes. The empirical literature on rulemaking has produced a …

Most lobbying is invisible, meaning that interest groups routinely contact government
officials “off the public record.” While such lobbying is ubiquitous, whether and how it may …

Abstract In The Pox of Liberty, Werner Troesken details the tradeoff between liberal
institutions and communicable disease. According to Troesken, individual freedom presents …

Contemporary public administration research has marginalized the importance of “taking
history seriously.” With few exceptions, little recent scholarship in the field has looked …

This article analyzes the influence of interest groups on the pre-proposal stage of the
administrative rulemaking process.,) multiple streams model is used as a descriptive …