In political science, one issue still in need of greater theorizing is the proper measurement bureaucratic autonomy, that is, degree discretion principals should grant to agents. This article reviews literature on autonomy both US administrative law and science. It uses American experience define five mechanisms by which limit then goes survey comparative other democratic systems using framewor...

This review attempts to identify treatments of corruption that draw upon characteristics of underdevelopment either as causes or as consequences. It focuses on three aspects of corruption in developing economies: red tape, rent-seeking, and the abundance of intermediaries. Red tape is presented as arising from differences in abilityto-pay and willingness-to-pay, which is a consequence of incomp...

INTRODUCTION A recent development in the study of foreign policy is the growing attention being given to bureaucratic politics explanations of national foreign policy behavior.' In fact, it would be no exaggeration to characterize the bureaucratic politics approach or bureaucratic paradigm as a major research thrust in contemporary international relations theory. Foreign policy behavior, the bu...

Spectrum management is an extremely important part of telecommunications policy and regulation. The allocation of spectrum for particular uses, and development of specific technical and service rules governing those allocations, are crucial determinants of telecommunications industry structure and performance. Not only does the management of the resource have an enormous impact on a nation’s ec...

In this paper we investigate how “civil service” systems of public personnel management interact with bureaucratic discretion to create expert bureaucracies populated by policy-motivated agents. We build a model in which bureaucrats may invest in (relationship specific) policy expertise, and may be either policy-motivated or policy-indifferent. We argue that under specific conditions on the nat...

We analyze a model of delegation and policymaking in polities where bureaucratic capacity is low. Our analysis suggests that low bureaucratic capacity diminishes incentives for bureaucrats to comply with legislation, making it more difficult for politicians to induce bureaucrats to take actions that politicians desire. Consequently, when bureaucratic capacity is low, standard principles in the ...

Recent research on financial market development has focused on the nature of the legal system. The law-and-finance literature, however, exclusively focuses on the abuse of management power as a major cause of shareholder expropriation. The role of the administrative capability of the state in providing and guaranteeing the institutional foundations for securities development is thereby overlook...