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Doing The Right Thing: Collective Action And Procedural Choice In The New Legislative Process (Parliaments and Legislatures Series) by LAWRENCE A BECKER is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Doing The Right Thing: Collective Action And Procedural Choice In The New Legislative Process (Parliaments and Legislatures Series) about?

Doing the Right Thing examines the use of extraordinary legislative procedures in four cases in the U.S. Congress to accomplish policy objectives that many political scientists would argue are impossible to achieve. It not only shows that Congress is capable of imposing parochial costs in favor of general benefits but it argues that Congress is able to do so in a variety of policy areas through the use of very different kinds of procedural mechanisms that are underappreciated. The book opens by developing a theory of procedural choice to explain why Congress chooses to delegate in differing degrees in dealing with similar kinds of policy problems. The theory is then applied to four narrative case studies—military base closures, the Yucca Mountain Project, NAFTA, and the Tax Reform Act of 1986—that both show the variety of factors that impact procedural choice and highlight how our national legislature was able to “do the right thing.” The book concludes by pointing to the variety of ways in which Congress will be confronted with similar policy problems in the coming years and offering some lessons from these cases about what kinds of procedures and policy outcomes we might expect.

Author

LAWRENCE A BECKER

Publisher

Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814290590

Subjects

Law, History, Political Science