Designing Bureaucratic Accountability

Lupia, Arthur; McCubbins, Mathew D.

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Designing Bureaucratic Accountability

Arthur Lupia

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Political Science

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Gould School of Law and the Department of Political Science

Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 57, No. 1, 1994

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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.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 37

Keywords: institutional design, law-making, policy making, democracy, bureaucracy, acountability

JEL Classification: D78, D73

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Date posted: July 30, 2007

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Lupia, Arthur and McCubbins, Mathew D., Designing Bureaucratic Accountability. Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 57, No. 1, 1994. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1003237

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Arthur Lupia (Contact Author) University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Political Science ( email ) Ann Arbor, MI 48109 United States 734-647-7549 (Phone) 734-764-3341 (Fax) HOME PAGE: www.umich.edu/~lupia
Mathew D. McCubbins University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Gould School of Law and the Department of Political Science ( email ) FBE 06515, Mail Code 0804 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0804 United States (213)740-5036 (Phone)

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Designing Bureaucratic Accountability

Arthur Lupia

Mathew D. McCubbins

Date posted: July 30, 2007

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Arthur Lupia (Contact Author)

Mathew D. McCubbins