The majority of the policy work of government is done through the organizations that
constitute the public bureaucracy. Indeed, these organizations make a good deal of policy
on their own through their delegated capacity to make secondary legislation (Kerwin, 2011;
Page, 2012). But even when the administrative organizations are acting more as agents for
political leaders they have a number of important roles to play in making policy and in
making policies perform as intended by the actors who had designed them. Although some …