Bureaucrats or Politicians? Part I: A Single Policy Task
研究将政策任务分配给民选政治家还是独立官僚的规范标准，发现官僚更适合技术性任务，而再分配任务的分配取决于官僚如何被指导。
This paper investigates the normative criteria that guide the allocation of a policy task to an elected politician versus an independent bureaucrat. The bureaucrat is preferable for technical tasks for which ability is more important than effort, or if there is great uncertainty about whether the policymaker has the required abilities. The optimal allocation of redistributive tasks is ambiguous, and depends on how the bureaucrat can be instructed. But irrespective of the normative conclusion, the politician prefers not to delegate redistributive policies.