Legislatures in the Policy Process - The Dilemmas of Economic Policy

Klappentext Thi book will be of interest to specialists and students of politics and economic policy making. Zusammenfassung Thi book will be of interest to specialists and students of politics and economic policy making. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction: 1. Parliaments and public policy David M. Olson and Michael L. Mezey; Part II. Macroeconomic Policy: 2. Legislative oversight of monetary policy in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States Lance T. Leloup and John T. Woolley; 3. The US Congress and credit policy - institutional and policy implications Dennis S. Ippolito; 4. Industrial policy agenda and options in Congress and the executive in the United States David M. Olson, Roger H. Davidson and W. Thomas Kephart; Part III. Microeconomic Policy: 5. The British House of Commons and industrial policy David M. Wood; 6. Congress and the development of a computer industry policy in Brazil Abdo I. Baaklini and Antonio Carlos Pojo Do Rego; 7. Electronics policy and the Indian parliament R. B. Jain; 8. The Polish parliament and labor legislation during Solidarity David S. Mason; Part IV. Conclusion: 9. Parliaments and public policy: an assessment Michael L. Mezey; Name index; General index.

Product details

• Authors: David M. Olson, David M. Mezey Olson
• Assisted by: Olson David M. (Editor), Michael L. Mezey (Editor), David M. Olson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2008
• EAN: 9780521064026
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06402-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Advances in Political Science
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education