Differing Goals of Limiting Autonomy: Legislatures, Governors, and State Ethics Commissions
研究立法和行政分支对道德委员会自治权的控制如何影响其监督效果，发现民选官员会策略性地引导注意力，以保护自身或指向另一分支。
Ethics commissions address policies that are external to the policy maker, the enforcement of which may be damaging to the policymaker. Given this potential for harm it is likely that delegation to commissions is transactional with elected officials controlling autonomy based on a set of specific goals. The author tests this argument by examining how executive and legislative control of a commission’s autonomy impacts the effectiveness of a commission’s oversight. Findings suggest that elected officials attempt to influence commissions in a strategic manner based upon whether they want to direct attention away from themselves or toward the other branch of government.