Deliberate Discretion?: The Institutional Foundations of Bureaucratic Autonomy

by Charles R. Shipan and John D. Huber

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521520703
• ISBN13: 9780521520706
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"