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At the intersection of the growing national conversation about our food system and the long-running debate about the US government s role in society is the complex farm bill. In The Fault Lines of Farm Policy Jonathan Coppess analyses the legislative and political histo... Lees meer.

Dysfunction in the contemporary Senate is driven by the deteriorating relationship between the majority and minority parties in the institution. In this environment regular order is virtually nonexistent and unorthodox parliamentary procedures are frequently needed to... Lees meer.

The studies contained in this volume present a sampling of policy and legislation relating to adult learning in various parts of the world. They were produced in the context of a more complete survey under the auspices of the UNESCO Institute for Education VIE in coo... Lees meer.

This book offers a commentary on the responses to white collar crime since the financial crisis. The book brings together experts from academia and practice to analyse the legal and policy responses that have been put in place following the 2008 financial crisis. The bo... Lees meer.

Examines the political perceptions policy principles and power plays of the influential 104th Republican freshmen in the US House. This book shows how political environments can produce legislators who place a premium on their policy-making goals through an exploration... Lees meer.

Lawmaking provides many opportunities for proposals to be altered amended tabled or stopped completely. The ideal legislator should assess evidence update his or her beliefs with new information and sometimes be willing to change course. In practice however lawm... Lees meer.

Social welfare activities stand at the heart of the modern democratic state. This study analyzes the development of social welfare policy in modern America beginning with a critical assessment of the dominant progressive and social control theoretical perspectives.... Lees meer.

The United States spends approximately 5 billion each year on federal programs designed to conserve natural resources and address the environmental consequences of modern agricultural production. Like farm policy agricultural conservation policy is rooted in the Roose... Lees meer.

In formulating a public policy judgment analysis enables policy makers to assess and accommodate the relative importance of differing viewpoints and concerns of competing actors as an analytic decision aid. Among the important constraints that prevent judgment analysis... Lees meer.

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The lack of previous research into political interest groups and taking into account policy-specific and institutional context characteristics is largely due to research designs that have been primarily focused on a small number of policy debates with the result that c... Lees meer.

Presents a new bargaining model of procedural change to better explain the persistence of the filibuster in the current polarized US political environment and focuses on the dynamics ultimately responsible for the nature and direction of contested procedural change.... Lees meer.

Jeffrey E. Cohen asks why US presidents send to Congress the legislative proposals that they do and what Congress does with those proposals. His study covers nearly the entire history of the presidency from 1789 to 2002. The long historical scope allows Cohen to engag... Lees meer.

This volume brings together contributions from a range of methodological perspectives in order to take stock of twenty years of practising and studying codecision and to examine the procedure s long-term implications for the EU s institutions politics and policies. Thi... Lees meer.