Legislative Demand and the Timing of U.S. Agency Regulations

• In Event: Presidential Control and Bureaucratic Policymaking

Brief Overview

Using an original dataset that links federal statutes to rules produced by the Department of the Interior over a forty-year period, we provide a novel empirical analysis of agency regulatory responsiveness to Congressional statutes.

Authors

• Simon F. Haeder, The Pennsylvania State University

• Susan Webb Yackee, University of Wisconsin-Madison