Designing Bureaucratic Accountability
37 Pages Posted: 30 Jul 2007
Abstract
We investigate the extent to which legislators can use institutional design to adapt the the challenges presented by the complexity of policy making. In so doing, we produce new and more general conclusions about the consequences of institutional design for democratic decision-making and conclude that, in general, democracy can work.
Keywords: institutional design, law-making, policy making, democracy, bureaucracy, acountability
JEL Classification: D78, D73
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Lupia, Arthur and McCubbins, Mathew D., Designing Bureaucratic Accountability. Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 57, No. 1, 1994, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1003237
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