Overseeing Empty Chairs: Interest Groups, Congress, and Agency Inaction

• In Event: Influences on Administrative Policymaking

Brief Overview

Using original data on vacancies in appointments, interest group ideological scores, and congressional oversight hearings, we examine how interest groups and Congress react to the growing need for oversight given agency inaction from empty chairs.

Authors

• Christina M. Kinane, Yale University

• Jesse M. Crosson, Princeton University and Trinity University