Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice

Institutional Constraints and Policy Choice
Author: James C. Clingermayer
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2001-04-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780791449134

Demonstrates how governmental structure and institutional rules determine who gets what in American cities.

Controlling the Bureaucracy

Controlling the Bureaucracy
Author: William F. West
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2016-09-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315482436

Controls on the bureaucracy through administrative due process and presidential and congressional prerogatives are the focus of this book. The author examines these controls and assesses the trade-offs among them.

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Author: Douglass C. North
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1990-10-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521397346

An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis of economic structures.

Government formation in Multi-Level Settings

Government formation in Multi-Level Settings
Author: I. Stefuriuc
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137300744

This book examines how parties negotiate coalition deals at the subnational level using the examples of Germany and Spain. In such multi-level settings, parties are present at various negotiation tables often having to make difficult choices about their role in the coalition and the relative merits of being in government over the opposition.

Policy and Choice

Policy and Choice
Author: William J. Congdon
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0815704984

Argues that public finance--the study of the government's role in economics--should incorporate principles from behavior economics and other branches of psychology.

Supreme Court Decision-Making

Supreme Court Decision-Making
Author: Cornell W. Clayton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 1999
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0226109550

What influences decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court? For decades social scientists focused on the ideology of individual justices. Supreme Court Decision Making moves beyond this focus by exploring how justices are influenced by the distinctive features of courts as institutions and their place in the political system. Drawing on interpretive-historical institutionalism as well as rational choice theory, a group of leading scholars consider such factors as the influence of jurisprudence, the unique characteristics of supreme courts, the dynamics of coalition building, and the effects of social movements. The volume's distinguished contributors and broad range make it essential reading for those interested either in the Supreme Court or the nature of institutional politics. Original essays contributed by Lawrence Baum, Paul Brace, Elizabeth Bussiere, Cornell Clayton, Sue Davis, Charles Epp, Lee Epstein, Howard Gillman, Melinda Gann Hall, Ronald Kahn, Jack Knight, Forrest Maltzman, David O'Brien, Jeffrey Segal, Charles Sheldon, James Spriggs II, and Paul Wahlbeck.