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Who Makes Public Policy?

he Struggle for Control between Congress and the Executive
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The editors synthesize ten case studies sponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration that relate stories of congressional intervention and suggest, in sum, a new theory of congressional-executive relations. Arguing that Congress cannot be dimissed as simply a troublesome meddler in agency programs or as an inattentive bystander in its oversight role, Gilmour and Halley draw from these case histories the surprising conclusion that Congress in facts acts regularly, with the executive branch, as a powerful co-manager of policy outlines and program details. Each case study is organized to examine the process and the results - for policy, for the institutions involved, for management, and for congressional-executive relations - when Congress intervenes in the administrative domain. Addressing specific issues in policy areas including transportation, environment, health, energy, defense and foreign affairs, a team of scholars and professionals explores these illustrative cases within a common framework that allows for identification and comparison of cross-case patterns.
The struggle for control of policy and program development, Robert S. Gilmour and Alexis A. Halley; accelerating implementation - alert and collision avoidance, Diana Evans; reconciling pork-barrel politics and national transportation policy, Diana Evans; "not in my backyard" - high level nuclear waste policy, James A. Thurber; hazardous waste disposal - the double-edged sword of the RCRA land-ban hammers, Alexis A. Halley; making up for lost time - the defense nuclear weapons complex clean-up, James A. Thurber; battling for budgetary savings - prospective payments for hospitals under Medicare, Alexis A. Halley; producing a reliable weapons system - advance medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM), Robert S. Gilmour and Eric Minkoff; improving military co-ordination - the Goldwater-Nichols reorganization of the Department of defense, Thomas L. McNaugher and Roger L. Sperry; resolving policy difference - foreign aid and human rights, G. Calvin Mackenzie; interjecting constituency concerns - foreign military arms sales, G. Calvin Mackenzie; co-managing policy and program development, Robert S. Gilmour and Alexis A. Halley.
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