Keeping a Watchful Eye

Joel D. Aberbach , former senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings, is professor of political science and director of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"This book is an exceptionaly well-executed piece of thinking and research. It says more interesting and useful things about legislative oversight than any other book available. This is a genuinely important book that will have a major impact in this field." —Morris S. Ogul, University of Pittsburgh|"Joel Aberbach goes far to connect the ideals implied in Keeping a Watchful Eye with the realities of The Politics of Congressional Oversight. This book is... a broad-scale examination of oversight and it ranks as the best single overview of this growing and increasingly important congressional function." —Frederick M. Kaiser, Congressional Reseach Service|"uses a wealth of original data to dispel several widely credited myths concerning congressional oversight of the bureaucracy.... There is no other single work that covers congressional oversight and management of the bureaucracy with such insight and depth. -" —Matthew D. McCubbins, University of California, San Diego|"...the definitive treatment of the subject. -" —Legislative Information Alert