Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2014
Journal Title
American Journal of Comparative Law
ISSN
0002-919X
Abstract
This paper offers a theory to explain cross-national variation in administrative law doctrines and practices. Administrative law regimes vary along three primary dimensions: the scope of delegation to agencies, agencies’ exercise of discretion, and judicial practices of deference to agencies. Working with a principal-agent framework, we show how cross-national differences in institutions’ capacities and the environments they face encourage the adoption of divergent strategies that lead to a variety of distinct, stable, equilibrium outcomes. We apply our model to explain patterns of administrative law in the United States, Germany, France, and Commonwealth jurisdictions.
First Page
1
Volume Number
62
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Recommended Citation
Nuno Garoupa & Jud Mathews,
Strategic Delegation, Discretion, and Deference: Explaining the Comparative Law of Administrative Review,
62
Am. J. Comp. L.
1
(2014).
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