Description: The laws that legislatures adopt provide a crucial opportunity for elected politicians to define public policy. But the ways politicians use laws to shape policy vary considerably across polities. In some cases, legislatures adopt detailed and specific laws in an effort to micromanage policymaking processes. In others, they adopt general and vague laws that leave the executive and bureaucrats substantial discretion to fill in the policy details. What explains these differences across political systems, and how do they matter? The authors address these issues by developing and testing a comparative theory of how laws shape bureaucratic autonomy. Drawing on a range of evidence from advanced parliamentary democracies and the U.S. States, they argue that particular institutional forms--such as the nature of electoral laws, the structure of the legal system, and the professionalism of the legislature--have a systematic and predictable effect on how politicians use laws to shape the policymaking process.
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Book Title: Deliberate Discretion?: The Institutional Foundati
Item Length: 22.7 cm
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Name: Deliberate Discretion?: the Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 227 mm
Subject: Economics, Government
Publication Year: 2002
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 450 g
Author: John D. Huber, Charles R. Shipan
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
