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Bending the Rules - Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
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Bending the Rules - Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
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Who determines the fuel standards for our cars? What about whether
Plan B, the morning-after pill, is sold at the local pharmacy? Many
people assume such important and controversial policy decisions
originate in the halls of Congress. But the choreographed actions
of Congress and the president account for only a small portion of
the laws created in the United States. By some estimates, more than
ninety percent of law is created by administrative rules issued by
federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the
Department of Health and Human Services, where unelected
bureaucrats with particular policy goals and preferences respond to
the incentives created by a complex, procedure-bound rulemaking
process. With Bending the Rules, Rachel Augustine Potter shows that
rule making is not the rote administrative activity it is commonly
imagined to be but rather an intensely political activity in its
own right. Because rule making occurs in a separation of powers
system, bureaucrats are not free to implement their preferred
policies unimpeded: the president, Congress, and the courts can all
get involved in the process, often at the bidding of affected
interest groups. However, rather than capitulating to demands,
bureaucrats routinely employ "procedural politicking," using their
deep knowledge of the process to strategically insulate their
proposals from political scrutiny and interference. Tracing the
rulemaking process from when an agency first begins working on a
rule to when it completes that regulatory action, Potter show how
bureaucrats use procedures to resist interference from Congress,
the President, and the courts at each stage of the process. This
influence reveals that unelected bureaucrats wield considerable
influence over the direction of public policy in the United States.
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