Path of American Public Policy - Comparative Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor By Anne Marie Cammisa and Paul Christopher Manuel Klappentext The Path of American Public Policy: Comparative Perspectives demonstrates how ideas and institutions influence public policy formation in the United States. This book presents comparative cases of when comprehensive change in the United States failed and when it succeeded and compares and contrasts the American presidential system to the British parliamentary system. In this book, Anna Marie Cammisa and Paul Christopher Manuel renew their thoughtful comparison of the American 'Presidential' system with the parliamentary systems found in most liberal democracies. They go beyond a comparative politics text by imagining how American democracy might work if we had a parliamentary system. Their writing is both educational and entertaining, and they offer instruction in a way that is simple and understandable, while encouraging the student to think critically about democracy. This is great for assignment in both American Politics and Comparative Politics courses. -- Arthur Paulson, Southern Connecticut State University The Path of American Policy: Comparative Perspectives attacks an old question with a fresh perspective. Anne Marie Cammisa and Paul Christopher Manuel examine the impact of American institutions on policy-making, noting debates among the framers of our constitution, and ask what would be different if we had a parliamentary system and what would be different under different types of parliamentary systems stemming from electoral rules other than first-past-the-post-plurality voting. Naturally, there are no firm answers to the 'what ifs' that the authors pose, but there are probabilistic ones. This very well written book explicates the philosophies and the biases behind the American Constitution and its diametric opposite, the Westminster system. It explores the outcomes of two case studies in the U.K. and the U.S. and how institutions influenced them. This is a terrific book for thinking about American politics and government in a comparative context and is especially useful in understanding why we get the policy outcomes we do-or, as may more often be the case, the lack of outcome. -- Bert A. Rockman, Perdue University Zusammenfassung The Path of American Public Policy: Comparative Perspectives demonstrates how ideas and institutions influence public policy formation in the United States. This book presents comparative cases of when comprehensive change in the United States failed and when it succeeded and compares and contrasts the American presidential system to the British parliamentary system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter 1: Of Ideas and Institutions: The Foundational Tension of American DemocracyIntroduction Why Does American Government Appear to Be Spinning Its Wheels? The Foundational Tension: Majority Rule versus Minority RightsHow the Foundational Ideational Tension Limits Innovative Policy Development: Ideas Conceptualized as Cognitive Locks Conclusion Structure of the Remainder of the BookChapter 2: The Path of Political Development in Great Britain and the United States: A Brief Comparative History Why American Government Operates under Checks and Balances, and British Government Does Not The Evolution of the British Parliament Key Institutional Features of British Democracy The Creation of the American Presidential System Key Institutional Features of American Democracy ConclusionChapter 3: Agenda Setting and Agenda Control: Case One: A Legislative History of the 1994 Republican Contract with America The 1994 Contract with America Introduction to the 104th CongressThe Framers' Fears of the Tyranny of the Majority and the 1994 Republican Contract with America Background: Where Did the Contract Come From? The Contract with America The First Hundred Days of the 104th Congress American Congress Function Differently than the British Pa...

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• Authors: Anne Marie Cammisa, Anne Marie Manuel Cammisa, Paul Christopher Manuel
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.12.2013
• EAN: 9780739186619
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8661-9
• No. of pages: 266
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education