Why Congressional "Oversight" of the Bureaucracy Is No Such Thing

Tags Bureaucracy and RegulationMedia and Culture

05/29/2020Gary Galles

Neither voters nor politicians watch the bureaucracy very carefully, so they respond as one might expect—advancing their own and their favorites' interests, at the expense of the public they are supposedly working for.

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Original Article: "Why Congressional "Oversight" of the Bureaucracy Is No Such Thing"

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Gary Galles

Gary M. Galles is a Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University and an adjunct scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He is also a research fellow at the Independent Institute, a member of the Foundation for Economic Education faculty network, and a member of the Heartland Institute Board of Policy Advisors.