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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"congressional oversight"”.
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Higher Education Policy Punctuations: An Assessment of Media Attention and Congressional Oversight
<p>Congressional oversight of higher education is vital part of the policy process. However, a compressive study regarding the relationship between higher education oversight and attention has not been conducted. By utilizing McCubbins and Swartz’s Police Patrol and Fire Alarm Oversight Dichotomy, …
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Congressional Reporting: A Management Process to Build a Legislative-Centered Public Administration
Congressional reporting requirements are an integral part of congressional oversight. These oversight-reporting activities are an important element of the concept of a legislative-centered public administration (Rosenbloom, 2000) "derived from the major discussions, decisions, and actions taken by …
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Intelligence Outcomes: Assessing the 1975-1976 Intelligence Oversight Reforms
Legislative oversight of the executive branch is a significant feature of the separation of powers, and takes on greater importance in a persistent era of divided political control in the United States federal government. Agency theory and oversight theory have served as principal lenses for the …
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Agency without an adversary: The Cia and covert actions in the nineteen-eighties and beyond
… actions have been oft criticized. After serious Congressional oversight was established in 1976-77 (The Year of Intelligence) covert actions by the Agency tapered off. Did this mean the loss of a powerful tool because of Congressional meddling in foreign affairs or simply the retiring of outmoded …
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Domestic Political Institutions in U.S. Foreign Policy Decision Making
… can use.</p><p>The first easy investigates Congressional oversight of the International Trade Com- mission: ITC). A sizable literature finds that members of the Congressional oversight committee have used their positions to influence ITC decisions in favor of constituents who seek trade …
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Three essays on political economy
… The model makes several predictions concerning Congressional oversight of bureaucratic agencies. These predictions are broadly supported by an empirical analysis of audit reports released by the Government Accountability Office. Essay 2: State Parties and State Policies: A Double Regression …
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Politics as Usual: Congress and the Intelligence Community
… lawfully. Unfortunately, the secrecy that makes congressional oversight necessary also perversely disincentivize it. These efforts largely occur in private, taking members away from electorally beneficial activities. Inattentive voters, few interest groups, incomplete control of intelligence …