caa a22 4500 397524080 CHVBK 20180308164640.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199507 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a037252 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a037252 Campbell Heather E. Arizona State University Influencing Bureaucracy? A Research Note on Implications of Measuring Participation in Public Utility Rate Cases [Elektronische Daten] [Heather E. Campbell] Controlling bureaucracy is a long-standing concern in the public administration field. One theory is that appropriate influence of bureaucracy can occur via participative administration—that is, through citizen participation in bureaucratic decision making. Another idea is that experts from one agency should participate in another's proceedings in order to provide a balance of expertise. State public utility regulatory commissions rely on both these types of participation during rate cases, their key decision-making process. The empirical literature suggests that participation is not influencing public utility commissions as expected. However, since Gormley (1983), analysts have used versions of Gormley's proxy and grassroots advocacy activity levels indexes. Here, data on actual participation in fifty-four telephone rate cases are used to asses the continued usefulness of this index. The results suggest that the index is not as informative as hoped and that case-specific measures should be used to examine further the effect of citizen and outside-expert participation in the public utility setting. © 1995 by The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Inc. ARTICLES nationallicence Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Oxford University Press 5/3(1995-07), 319-329 1053-1858 5:3<319 1995 5 jopart https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a037252 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a037252 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Campbell Heather E. Arizona State University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory Oxford University Press 5/3(1995-07), 319-329 1053-1858 5:3<319 1995 5 jopart Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford