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How do public agencies decide which programs to prioritize when their budgets get cut?
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Aaron Deslatte
Budget cuts push the Antitrust Division to shift its litigation portfolio toward criminal cartel cases (price-fixing, bid-rigging), which are the easiest to win because they fall under the per se rule.
This comes at the expense of nonmerger civil cases in the short term and merger cases in the long term. The shift isn't about doing less, it's a strategic move to boost performance metrics, signal competence to Congress, and rebuild the case for future funding.
@pmra-1991.bsky.social
Roskilde University
Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen
Seulki Lee
@elizabethlinos.bsky.social
@michael-siciliano.bsky.social
Thad Calabrese
Rick Vogel
@gabilotta.bsky.social
@nathanfavero.com
@anadimand.bsky.social
Melissa Falkær Olsen
@sassmikkelsen.bsky.social
Recovered benefits move from claimants to employers.
By George Krause & Ji Hyeun Hong:
academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...
@olehelby.bsky.social
Aaron Deslatte
Read it in "How do public agencies respond to budgetary control? A theory of strategic task portfolios in public administration" by Jonghoon Lee: doi.org/10.1093/jopa...
@pmra-1991.bsky.social
Roskilde University
Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen
Seulki Lee
@elizabethlinos.bsky.social
@michael-siciliano.bsky.social
Thad Calabrese
Rick Vogel
@gabilotta.bsky.social
@nathanfavero.com
@anadimand.bsky.social
Melissa Falkær Olsen
@sassmikkelsen.bsky.social
💫 How does partisan control of governors shape how hard state agencies work to detect program errors?
A new study of UI programs in all 50 states (2002–2021) finds Republican-appointed agencies pursue ~$2.65M more in overpayment detection per year than Democratic-appointed ones.