Government at Work (eBook, ePUB)

Policymaking in the Twenty-First-Century Congress
Redaktion: Ahuja, Sunil; Dewhirst, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this edited volume, an array of scholars has examined recent policymaking efforts in selected areas of contemporary importance. Government at Work: Policymaking in the Twenty-First Century Congress provides chapter-length treatment to reveal the similarities and fundamentals of policy development while also illustrating the unique issues and obstacles found in each policy environment. This book's scope spans the entire policymaking process, exposing the readers to the interaction among all major power centers, ranging from interest groups, media, courts, Congress, the president, and the federal bureaucracy. It shows the dynamic nature of American policymaking system. The approach employed in this book treats events, such as Congress passing a law or the Supreme Court announcing a ruling, as important steps in the policy process rather than as merely ends unto themselves.

This volume focuses on major legislation passed by Congress since the turn of the century. It features one case study per chapter, demonstrating how issues rise to the national agenda, pass through the congressional labyrinth to become public policies, are implemented by the federal bureaucracy, receive feedback from affected elements of the society, and ultimately evolve over the years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498530583
• Artikelnr.: 44909400

Autorenporträt

Sunil Ahuja is vice president for accreditation relations, institutional change, and research at the Higher Learning Commission. Robert E. Dewhirst is professor of political science at Northwest Missouri State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Robert P. Watson
Preface
Chapter 1: The Politics of the Policymaking Process in a Time of
Hyperpartisanship, Sunil Ahuja and Robert E. Dewhirst
Chapter 2: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (2009), Michelle L. Wade
Chapter 3: The Struggle to Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell (2010), Sean D.
Foreman
Chapter 4: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010), Douglas
M. Brattebo
Chapter 5: Higher Education Opportunity Act (2008), Sunil Ahuja
Chapter 6: Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act and Citizens United v. FEC (2002,
2010), Peter J. Bergerson, Margaret E. Banyan, Ashley Skalecki, and Aleea
L. Perry
Chapter 7: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
(2010), Marcia L. Godwin with Shandra L. McDonald
Chapter 8: The USA PATRIOT Act (2001), Kevin N. Buterbaugh
Chapter 9: Evolving Lessons of Lawmaking In a Dynamic System, Robert E.
Dewhirst and Sunil Ahuja