Deliberate Discretion? - The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy

Klappentext This book explains the different approaches legislators use when they write laws.Legislators sometimes write detailed laws that spell out exactly what policies should look like. At other times, however, they write vague laws that allow bureaucrats to make policy. The authors explain why legislators take these different approaches, using labor laws across countries and health policy laws across the US states. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Laws, bureaucratic autonomy and the comparative study of delegation; 2. Rational delegation or helpless abdication? The relationship between bureaucrats and politicians; 3. Statutes as blueprints for policy making processes; 4. A comparative theory of legislative discretion and the policy making process; 5. Legislation, agency policy making and Medicaid in Michigan; 6. The design of laws across separation of powers systems; 7. The design of laws across parliamentary systems; 8. Laws, institutions, and policy making processes.

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• Authors: John D. Huber, John D. (Columbia University Huber, John D. Shipan Huber, Charles R. Shipan
• Assisted by: Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2002
• EAN: 9780521817448
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81744-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education