Prodelegation: Why Administrators Should Make Political Decisions

Americans often complain about their government. Indeed, while baseball's claim to the position ofnational pastime is variously disputed, good empirical research might reveal that carping about the actions or inactions of various officials deserves serious consideration for this increasingly dubious honor. While a moderately skeptical analysis of our various articulated disappointments might trace their origins largely to the intractability, even perversity, of the humnan materials that constitute the body politic, we often also look optimistically for ways of reforming our political organization. Our aspiration is to produce better governmental action by designing a better governmental svstem.