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Policy Without Politicians - Bureaucratic Influence in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
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Policy Without Politicians - Bureaucratic Influence in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
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Have bureaucrats taken over the decision making role of
politicians? This book offers a direct assessment of the role of
bureaucrats in policy making by analysing how they shape policy in
making decrees - laws that generally do not pass through full
legislative scrutiny. These are often described as "secondary
legislation" and are known by a variety of names (including
decrets, arretes, administrative regulations, Verordnungen,
statutory instruments). Such decrees offer an important vantage
point for understanding bureaucratic power not only because they
account for a large proportion of policy making activity within the
executive, but also because they are made largely away from the
glare of publicity. If bureaucrats have strong policy making powers
and use them in a way that minimises political involvement in
policy making, we would expect to find these powers especially
evident in this "everyday" decision making. The book is based on
research examining 52 decrees produced between 2005 and 2008 in six
jurisdictions: France, the UK, Germany, Sweden, the United States
and the European Union. The comparative perspective allows one to
see how far different patterns of bureaucratic involvement in
policy making are characteristic of particular political systems
and how far they are a general feature of modern bureaucracies. The
book asks three main questions about how these decrees are
produced: when do politicians become involved in making them? What
happens when politicians become involved? And what happens when
they are not involved? The answers to these questions are provided
by examination of primary source material as well as interviews
with over 90 officials.
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