Journal Articles

Bureaucratic Effectiveness and Influence in the Legislature

---

An extensive literature explores the correlates of bureaucratic influence in the implementation of public policy. Considerably less work, however, has investigated the conditions under which bureaucratic actors influence legislative outcomes. In this article, we develop the argument that effectiveness should be a key determinant of bureaucratic influence in the legislative process and identify a set of institutional characteristics that may facilitate or constrain this relationship. We test these expectations in an analysis of legislator perceptions of bureaucratic influence over legislative outcomes in the 50 US states. The results suggest that the impact of bureaucratic effectiveness on the influence of the bureaucracy over legislative outcomes is greater in states with legislative term limits, united governments, and fragmented executive branches.

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory

Call Number

-

Publisher

Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press., 2012

Collation

p. 347-371

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

1053-1858

Classification

-

Content Type

-

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

-

Edition

Volume 22 Issue 2 April 2012 p. 347-371

Subject(s)

Bureaucracy
Public policy
Legislative

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment