Crossing the organizational void: The limits of agency theory in the analysis of regulatory control

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Eisner, MA; Worsham, J; Ringquist, E
• 署名单位: West Virginia University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.1996.tb00250.x
• 发表日期: 1996
• 关键词: advocacy coalition framework; Political control; POLICY-MAKING; congressional dominance; economic-regulation; bureaucracy; DISCRETION; DYNAMICS; SYSTEM

摘要

This article critically examines the key assumptions of the positive theory of political control. The authors argue that the key assumptions of the theory are pawed and that these flaws seriously limit the importance of much research in the field of regulatory studies. The authors develop a set of new assumptions which would reorient the regulatory studies and force researchers to give greater attention to the role of the bureaucracy in political bureaucratic relations.