Unbroken Government [electronic resource] : Success and the Illusion of Failure in Policymaking /
Cobb, Wendy N. Whitman.author.
Unbroken Government demonstrates how institutional and electoral characteristics present since the writing of the Constitution influence policy development. Utilizing policy areas as diverse as human spaceflight, clean air, homeland security, and foreign policy, this work shows how these patterns manifest themselves in the policymaking process.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Tables and Figures""; ""Preface""; ""1 Institutions and Policy""; ""2 The Institutional-Policy Cycle""; ""3 Human Spaceflight and Clean Air Policy""; ""4 A Tale of Two Chambers""; ""5 Executives and Policy""; ""6 Bureaucratic Influence and Discretion""; ""7 Something Old, Something New, Something Federal""; ""8 A Path Forward""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unbroken Government demonstrates how institutional and electoral characteristics present since the writing of the Constitution influence policy development. Utilizing policy areas as diverse as human spaceflight, clean air, homeland security, and foreign policy, this work shows how these patterns manifest themselves in the policymaking process.
Public policy.
Europe-Politics and government.
Political science.
World politics.
United States-Politics and gover.
Public Policy.
European Politics.
Political Science.
Political History.
US Politics.