Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective

by Mark C. Miller

Book Overview

The functioning of the U.S. government is a bit messier than Americans would like to think. The general understanding of policymaking has Congress making the laws, executive agencies implementing them, and the courts applying the laws as written-as long as those laws are constitutional. Making Policy, Making Law fundamentally challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that no dominant institution-or even a roughly consistent pattern of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589010256
• ISBN13: 9781589010253
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher