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Capture, Accountability, And Regulatory Metrics, Sidney Shapiro, Rena Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

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The Countermajoritarian Difficulty: From Courts To Congress To Constitutional Order, Mark A. Graber

Mark Graber

This review documents how scholarly concern with democratic deficits in American constitutionalism has shifted from the courts to electoral institutions. Prominent political scientists are increasingly rejecting the countermajoritarian difficulty as the proper framework for studying and evaluating judicial power. Political scientists, who study Congress and the presidency, however, have recently emphasized countermajoritarian difficulties with electoral institutions. Realistic normative appraisals of American political institutions, this emerging literature on constitutional politics in the United States maintains, should begin by postulating a set of democratic and constitutional goods, determine the extent to which American institutions as a whole are delivering those goods, and …

Accountability And The Commission On The Limits Of The Continental Shelf: Deciding Who Owns The Ocean Floor, Anna Cavnar

Anna Cavnar

Over the past decade, scholars and government officials have become increasingly concerned that the world is building an international institutional infrastructure that is unaccountable to the states and individuals it supposedly serves. This Article takes the question of accountability to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (the "Commission" or "CLCS"), the international body charged with overseeing delineation of the outer continental shelf – a process which will eventually give more than sixty countries exclusive control over millions of square kilometers of seabed and the resources, including potentially vast oil and gas deposits, found within it. The United …

What Ngo Accountability Means - And Does Not Mean, Kenneth Anderson

Kenneth Anderson