Legitimacy, selectivity, and the disunitary executive: a reply to Sally Katzen.(response to Sally Katzen, Michigan Law Review, vol. 105, p. 1497)

Michigan Law Review, May, 2007 by Bressman, Lisa Schultz; Vandenbergh, Michael P.

 
INTRODUCTION 
  I. SELECTING EPA 
 II. DEFINING ACCOUNTABILITY AND EFFICACY 
III. THE WIZARD(S) OF OZ 
 IV. SELECTIVITY OF WHITE HOUSE INVOLVEMENT 
CONCLUSION 

INTRODUCTION

This reply addresses the thoughtful comments that former OIRA Administrator Sally Katzen has provided on our Article, Inside the Administrative State: A Critical Look at the Practice of Presidential Control. (1) Our Article is the first to investigate the agency perspective on White House involvement in agency rule-making. We interviewed 30 of the 35 top political officials in the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") during the George H.W. Bush ("Bush I") and the William J. Clinton Administrations during 1989-2001. (2) Prior to our study, empirical studies of White House...

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