All public bureaucracies must resolve two fundamental problems. First, they must specify
individual tasks in a way that is consistent with each official's information-processing …

Public decision makers are given a vague mandate to regulate industries. Restrictions on
their regulatory instruments or scope of regulation affect their incentives to identify with …

Debate over floors versus ceilings was, until recently, largely hypothetical, due to the rarity of
federal imposition of ceilings. During the past year, however, in settings ranging from …

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Congress can exert control over regulatory agencies either through oversight or through
statutory control provisions that establish agency structure and process. Each strategy has …

Winner of the 1988 Policy Studies Organization Book Award Among the more dramatic
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Politics of the Administrative Process shows how efficient public administration requires a
delicate balance—the bureaucracy must be powerful enough to be effective, but also …

How should the federal government be organized-and who (ie, which departments,
agencies, bureaus, and commissions) should do what? The issue is not new: President …