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Crises, Commissions, and Reform: The Impact of Blue-Ribbon Panels
Scholars have found that, even when a crisis creates demand for reform, a focal point is often necessary to overcome
obstacles to change. I argue that, with surprising frequency, U.S. blue-ribbon commissions use their bipartisan political credibility to provide this focal point and thereby catalyze postcrisis government reform. Since commission-inspired reform is often designed to integrate or centralize policy making, I further explain that commissions can be useful presidential tools for asserting power over agencies. I test my argument on an original data set that includes new measures of commission influence.
Keywords :commissions, crisis, reform, reorganization, presidency
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