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Democracy and Executive Power : Policymaking Accountability in the US, the UK, Germany, and France
ISBN: 9780300262476
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Yale University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Political Science;

A defense of regulatory agencies' efforts to combine public consultation with bureaucratic expertise to serve the interest of all citizens

The statutory delegation of rule-making authority to the executive has recently become a source of controversy. There are guiding models, but none, Susan Rose-Ackerman claims, is a good fit with the needs of regulating in the public interest. Using a cross-national comparison of public policy-making in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, she argues that public participation inside executive rule-making processes is necessary to preserve the legitimacy of regulatory policy-making.

Susan Rose‑Ackerman is Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science at Yale University.