Feasibility and Feedback: Presidential Oversight, Public Comments, and Procedural Choice in U.S. Rulemaking

• In Event: Bureaucratic Politics: Citizen Interactions

Brief Overview

We develop a model to study how agencies strategically choose policy locations of proposed rule and the length of the comment window. Using computational methods to analyze proposed rules and comments, we validate our model's predictions.

Authors

• Muzhi Liu, Columbia University

• Fred Gui, Louisiana State University