Conditions for Legislative Control

D EMOCRATIC IDEOLOGY REQUIRES control of administrative action by elected representatives of the people. As the scope of public in relation to private decisions expands, the tendency is to expand the area of administrative in relation to legislative policy. With this tendency the control of administrative agencies becomes a pressing issue.1 A good deal has been said about the merits of control centered in legislatures as compared with elected executives.2 The antagonists typically argue not for control located in one elective institution to the exclusion of any other but about the amount and kind of oversight that is appropriate for legislatures in relation to executives.3 Legislators, understandably, see themselves as the community's primary agents for the job of reviewing administrative performance. In 1946 this conviction was formalized by