Agency delays: How a principal-agent approach can inform judicial and executive branch review of agency foot-dragging

George Washington Law Review

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1381-1448

  Sant'Ambrogio, Michael D ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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