You might also like

Availability alert

More about Logic of Delegation

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 294 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Why do majority congressional parties seem unable to act as an effective policy-making force? They routinely delegate their power to others--internally to standing committees and subcommittees within each chamber, externally to the president and to the bureaucracy. Conventional wisdom in political science insists that such delegation leads inevitably to abdication--usually by degrees, sometimes precipitously, but always completely. In The Logic of Delegation, however, D. Roderick Kiewiet and Mathew D. McCubbins persuasively argue that political scientists have paid far too much attention to what congressional parties can't do. The authors draw on economic and management theory to demonstrate that the effectiveness of delegation is determined not by how much authority is delegated but rather by how well it is delegated. In the context of the appropriations process, the authors show how congressional parties employ committees, subcommittees, and executive agencies to accomplish policy goals. This innovative study will force a complete rethinking of classic issues in American politics: the autonomy of congressional committees; the reality of runaway federal bureaucracy; and the supposed dominance of the presidency in legislative-executive relations.

Book details

Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: Logic of Delegation
• Subtitle: Congressional Parties and the Appropriations Process
• Author: D.Roderick Kiewiet, Mathew D. McCubbins
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 300
• EAN: 9780226435299
• ID: 04546401
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 576 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 157 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 1991

Trending among others

---

---

---