On Monday, January 14, 2019, President Trump signed into law H.R. 4174, the “Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018,” which improves evidence-based policy through strengthening Federal agency evaluation capacity; furthering interagency data sharing and open…
The European Commission has been developing a comprehensive better regulation policy covering the whole policy cycle for over a decade. In 2015 the Juncker Commission made better regulation one of its top priorities. This was…
A Task Force on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and ‘Doing Less More Efficiently’ was established by the European Commission President Juncker in November 2017. Juncker asked the Task Force to look at 3 issues: (1) the role…
Political Control and Agency Independence Döhler, M. 2017. The Principal’s Moral Hazard in Political-Bureaucratic Relations, International Journal of Public Administration, advance online publication. Koop, C. and C. Hanretty. 2017. Political independence, accountability, and the quality…
Political Control and Agency Independence Badran, A. 2016. Revisiting Regulatory Independence, Public Policy & Administration, Advance online publication. De Kruijf, J.A.M. and S. van Thiel. 2016. Political Control of Arm’s Length Agencies: One Standard Does…
Agency Policy-Making Tai, L. 2016. Regulatory Capture and Quality, Journal of Public Policy, Advance online publication. Verhoest, K. and J. Wynen. 2016. Why Do Autonomous Public Agencies Use Performance Management Techniques? Revisiting the Role of…
Delegation, Reorganization and Agency Termination Elston, T. 2016. Conflict between Explicit and Tacit Public Service Bargains in U.K. Executive Agencies, Governance, Advance online publication. MacCarthaigh, M., M. Painter and W.H. Yee. 2016. Managing for Legitimacy:…
The Annual Bulletin assembles the Literature Bulletins which have been released throughout 2015 on a four-month basis. The latter have been compiled from a number of international political science and public management journals. We have…
In a seminal piece Jennifer Nou has focused on the internal organization of agencies which is undertheorized by scholars who tend to pay more attention to administrative law imposed upon agencies. Nou hypothesized that agency…
Embed from Getty Images British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to renegotiate the UK’s relations with the European Union. The renegotiation will be followed by a referendum by the end of 2017, to decide…