Designing Bureaucratic Accountability

Lupia, Arthur; McCubbins, Mathew D.

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Designing Bureaucratic Accountability

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

37 Pages Posted: 30 Jul 2007

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Arthur Lupia

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Department of Political Science

Mathew D. McCubbins

Department of Political Science and Law School, Duke University (deceased)

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