P RODUCTION OF L EGAL R ULES BY A GENCIES AND B UREAUCRACIES Georg

The main questions which the literature on rule production by agencies and bureaucracies deals with are: To what extent should legislators delegate rule making to bureaucracy? How can procedural rules curb an agency’s discretion in making substantive rules? Do legislators select bureaucratic decisions for oversight randomly or on the basis of complaints? Who exactly controls bureaucracy: some and which elements in the legislature or the judiciary? How does the process of bureaucratic rule making work inside an agency? This article reviews the literature with a special emphasis on the effect of procedural rules and on the spatial representation of the interplay between the bureaucracy and the legislature. It concludes by pointing out that more research should be conducted on the process of rule making within agencies and the underlying preferences. JEL classification: D73, H11, K23, K29