Research

We use letters that legislators write to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to study congressional attempts to influence …

We describe the major kinds of data that have proven useful to scholars studying interest group behavior and influence in bureaucratic …

Methods to measure regulatory stringency and a comparison of forest certification programs.

When public comments raise environmental justice concerns, these concerns are more likely to be addressed in the final rule. However, …

Representation in Congress is based, in part, on legislators’ ability to assist their constituents with the federal bureaucracy. …

Scholars of bureaucratic policymaking have focused on the sophisticated lobbying efforts of powerful interest groups. Yet agencies …

This paper introduces a dataset of over 100,000 pages of discussion about how U.S. federal budget line items ought to be used and …

The role of US NGOs in shaping Canadian boreal forest policy.

I investigate the conventional wisdom that courts are more likely to uphold federal agency policies made through notice-and-comment …