Rule Significance and Interbranch Competition in Rulemaking Processes
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چکیده
As one of the most powerful executive actions, rulemaking by U.S. federal agencies involves all three branches and governs many issue areas, but some rules are routine others highly consequential. We build a new rule universe composed nearly forty-thousand considered listed in Unified Agenda since Spring 1995 employ an item response model with 15 raters to generate integrated estimates significance for each rules. To showcase usefulness this measure, we propose test competing models on agency productivity, finding that president Congress influence promulgation nuanced way. The is dominant when consider moderately noteworthy rules, has more over significant regulations, suggesting branches’ influences vary consequential nature issues considered.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Political Science Review
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0003-0554', '1537-5943']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055422001460