{"product_id":"making-policy-making-law-mark-c-miller-9781589010253","title":"Making Policy, Making Law: An Interbranch Perspective","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe functioning of the U.S. government is a bit messier than Americans would like to think. The general understanding of policymaking has Congress making the laws, executive agencies implementing them, and the courts applying the laws as written-as long as those laws are constitutional. \u003ci\u003eMaking Policy, Making Law\u003c\/i\u003e fundamentally challenges this conventional wisdom, arguing that no dominant institution-or even a roughly consistent pattern of relationships-exists among the various players in the federal policymaking process. Instead, at different times and under various conditions, all branches play roles not only in making public policy, but in enforcing and legitimizing it as well. This is the first text that looks in depth at this complex interplay of all three branches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe common thread among these diverse patterns is an ongoing dialogue among roughly coequal actors in various branches and levels of government. Those interactions are driven by processes of conflict and persuasion distinctive to specific policy arenas as well as by the ideas, institutional realities, and interests of specific policy communities. Although complex, this fresh examination does not render the policymaking process incomprehensible; rather, it encourages scholars to look beyond the narrow study of individual institutions and reach across disciplinary boundaries to discover recurring patterns of interbranch dialogue that define (and refine) contemporary American policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Policy, Making Law\u003c\/i\u003e provides a combination of contemporary policy analysis, an interbranch perspective, and diverse methodological approaches that speak to a surprisingly overlooked gap in the literature dealing with the role of the courts in the American policymaking process. It will undoubtedly have significant impact on scholarship about national lawmaking, national politics, and constitutional law. For scholars and students in government and law-as well as for concerned citizenry-this book unravels the complicated interplay of governmental agencies and provides a heretofore in-depth look at how the U.S. government functions in reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark C. Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1589010256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589010253\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Georgetown University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/23\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.92h x 6.96w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2005 pg. 18 - Recommended\/Special Interest","brand":"Mark C. Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985221288191,"sku":"9781589010253","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1ecb2c0b-a745-472e-a3e9-5ad564495551.jpg?v=1683276277","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-policy-making-law-mark-c-miller-9781589010253","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}