Political scientists have made broad use of data that are drawn from media sources. These
data tend to be of two kinds: measures of the volume of media attention to an issue, or …

While most studies of the determinants of regulatory policymaking have concentrated on
national-level issues, state-level regulatory politics represent a productive opportunity to …

Emerging patterns of global governance are being shaped by a little-noticed but important
and growing body of global administrative law. This body of law is not at present unified …

As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in
the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evaporated. Why has confidence in …

Bureaucrats perform most of the tasks of government, profoundly influencing the daily lives
of Americans. But who, or what, controls what bureaucrats do? John Brehm and Scott Gates …

Principal-agent models have been the basis for an extensive set of studies relating
bureaucracy to elected officials. Yet despite the outpouring of research, there has been little …

Voluntary programs have become widespread tools for governments and nongovernmental
actors looking to improve industry's environmental and regulatory performance. Voluntary …

This Element aims to connect the literature of street-level bureaucrats with that of policy
entrepreneurship in order to analyze why and how bureaucrats operating at the street level …

What kind of European Union do top Commission officials want? Should the European
Union be supranational or intergovernmental? Should it promote market-liberalism or …

Here, Kenneth J. Meier and Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. present a timely analysis of working
democracy, arguing that bureaucracy—often considered antithetical to fundamental …