Abstract:While agencies have an important role in the interplay between central government and states, their functioning impacts both separation of powers and cooperative federalism. Unorthodoxy in rule-making process serves as an example for the ways agencies can further exploit their privileged position in the frame of government. A reaction to an expansion of the weight and centrality of agencies’ decisions consisted in introducing pieces of legislation substantially downsizing agencies’ rulemaking, and in reconside… Show more
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