Independent Agencies in the United States: Law, Structure, and Politics
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Independent Agencies in the United States provides a full-length study of the structure and workings of federal independent regulatory agencies in the US, focusing on traditional multi-member agencies, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the National Labor Relations Commission, and the Federal Trade Commission. It recognizes that the changing kaleidoscope of modern life has led Congress to create innovative and idiosyncratic administrative structures including government corporations, government sponsored enterprises governance, public-private partnerships, systems for "contracting out," self-regulation and incorporation by reference of private standards.
In the process, Breger and Edles analyze the general conflict between political accountability and agency independence. They provide a unique comparative review of the internal operations of US agencies and offer contrasts between US, EU, and certain UK independent agencies. Included is a first-of-its-kind appendix describing the powers and procedures of the more than 35 independent US federal agencies, with each supplemented by a selective bibliography.
ISBN
9780199812127
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Disciplines
Administrative Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Breger, Marshall J. and Edles, Gary, "Independent Agencies in the United States: Law, Structure, and Politics" (2015). Faculty Books. 2.
https://scholarship.law.edu/fac_books/2