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- Title
Voting for Smokey Bear: Political accountability and the new chief of the Forest Service.
- Authors
Vandlik, John M.
- Abstract
Two relatively recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, which ruled on challenges by environmental groups against natural resources agencies of the federal government, provide insight into the role such agencies play within the structure of the government. Both of these cases turned on this issue of whether the groups could challenge agency actions in the courts. In reaching its decisions, the Court was, in part, guided by the "Case or Controversy," requirement of the U.S. Constitution and provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act Administrative Procedure Act. It is apparent, then, that an integral part of the separation of powers under the Constitution is the acknowledgment of the role politics plays in both the executive and legislative branches of government. Agencies, such as the Forest Service, are part of the executive branch and are effectively controlled by laws created in the legislative branch. The Supreme Court directs that when a person is not personally injured by an agency action or desires some generalized change in agency direction or policy that person must use the political process, not the courts, to seek redress.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FOREST fire prevention &; control; UNITED States. Foreign Service; NATURAL resources; THOMAS, Jack; SMOKEY Bear (Fictional character); ADMINISTRATIVE courts; FEDERAL legislation; EMPLOYEES
- Publication
Public Administration Review, 1995, Vol 55, Issue 3, p284
- ISSN
0033-3352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3110247