Rulemaking is a critical part of American government and governance. This article reviews
the political underpinnings of modern rulemaking. Specifically, it highlights the process and …

A perennial challenge for the administrative state is to answer the" democracy question":
how can the bureaucracy be squared with the idea of self-government of, by, and for a …

The Public Administration Theory Primer explores how the science and art of public
administration is definable, describable, replicable, and cumulative. The authors survey a …

Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether Plan B, the morning-
after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many people assume such important and …

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 …

Open government has become an important topic in democratically developed societies. Its
key aims are to increase transparency, citizen trust and public participation. Against this …

Agencies make many of their most important decisions in rulemaking well before the
publication of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPR), when they set their regulatory …

Abstract Information is central to designing effective policy, and policy makers often rely on
competing interests to separate useful from biased information. We show how this logic of …

Governing Health examines health care policy making from a long-term, political
perspective, describing how Congress, the president, special interest groups, bureaucracy …

The power of the federal executive branch has risen in recent decades, but so too have the
checks on it. These checks do not come merely from the coordinate branches of …