We offer a theoretical approach to federalism by defining a theoretical approach as a general account of the subject. It is general in that it applies in any political situation, at any time in history when political entities that are recognizable as nations existed. It is an account in being a...

When we speak of depoliticizing an administrative agency, what we mean is insulating it from direct presidential control. The resulting distinction between executive and independent agencies, however, is essentially invisible to Congress. All the mechanisms of control that Congress exercises...

Statutes dominate our legal system, but we have no theory about the best way to design them. The process that the U.S. Congress follows is haphazard and obscure. Any Member can introduce a bill. There are no requirements about who can draft the bill or how the basic decisions that it embodies...

Worker democracy has long been a preferred policy in socialist thought, and has been championed in the context of capitalist systems as well. Arguments in its favor are often based on an analogy to the advantages of democracy in the political system. This article proposes a different rationale...

The phenomenon of technological learning has been observed across a wide spectrum of energy and environmental technologies. Quantitative modeling of experience curves has become an increasingly common method of representing endogenous technical change in long-term integrated assessment models...

US environmental policy cedes substantial authority to local agencies—creating potentials for polluters/governments to strategically export emissions. We identify such strategies among coal-fueled power plants. First, we document that electricity generators locate near administrative borders....