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Procedural control of the bureaucracy, peer review, and epistemic drift.
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INTRODUCTION
Administrative procedures may be used as instruments for the political control of the bureaucracy, preventing policies from drifting from the original intentions of an enacting coalition of legislators and interest groups through the independent action of bureaucrats (McCubbins, Noll, and Weingast 1987). Legislative principals also worry about additional actors who may attempt to change the specified administrative, procedural safeguards because they belong ...
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