In the past decade, political science has witnessed a substantial amount of research using
formal models to explicate the rationale for and effects of myriad aspects of bureaucratic …

The responsiveness to societal demands is both the key virtue and the key problem of
modern democracies. On the one hand, responsiveness is a central cornerstone of …

Does democracy affect the provision of basic services? We advance on existing empirical
work on this subject by exploring the potential mechanisms through which a democratic …

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 …

Although good information is critical to effective decisionmaking, public agents' private
incentives to invest in gathering information may not align with the social interest in their …

While both the economics and political science literature have gained considerable
knowledge on why some environmental policies work better than others, we still lack a clear …

Agencies possess enormous regulatory discretion. This discretion allows executive branch
agencies in particular to insulate their decisions from presidential review by raising the costs …

All federal agencies must cope with the challenges of trying to achieve success on the
multiple goals laid out for them by Congress, the President, or the public at large. Recent …

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

Authoritarian leaders maintain their grip on power primarily through preventive repression,
routinely exercised by specialized security agencies with the aim of preventing any …