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9780521817448

Deliberate Discretion?: The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521817448

  • ISBN10:

    0521817447

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-10-07
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

The laws that legislatures adopt provide the most important and definitive opportunity elected politicians have to define public policy. But the ways politicians use laws to shape policy varies considerably across polities. In some cases, legislatures adopt detailed and specific laws in efforts to micromanage policy-making processes. In others, they adopt general and vague laws that leave the executive and bureaucrats substantial autonomy to fill in the policy details. What explains these differences across political systems, and how do they matter? The authors address this issue 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 American states, they argue that particular institutional forms have a systematic and predictable effect on how politicians use laws to shape the policy making process.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
xi
List of Figures
xii
Preface xiii
Laws, Bureaucratic Autonomy, and the Comparative Study of Delegation
1(16)
Rational Delegation or Helpless Abdication? The Relationship Between Bureaucrats and Politicians
17(27)
Statutes as Blueprints for Policymaking
44(34)
A Comparative Theory of Legislation, Discretion, and the Policymaking Process
78(31)
Legislation, Agency Policymaking, and Medicaid in Michigan
109(30)
The Design of Laws Across Separation of Powers Systems
139(32)
The Design of Laws Across Parliamentary Systems
171(39)
Laws, Institutions, and Policymaking Processes
210(21)
Appendix A MMC Laws Used in Chapter 3 231(2)
Appendix B Policy Categories Used for MMC Laws in Chapter 3 233(5)
Appendix C Procedural Categories Used for MMC Laws in Chapter 3 238(4)
Appendix D The Formal Model of Discretion 242(17)
References 259(16)
Author Index 275(4)
Subject Index 279

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