{"product_id":"the-politics-of-military-base-steven-e-schier-9780820455242","title":"The Politics of Military Base Closings: Not in My District","description":"This book investigates new patterns of  evasive delegation  and  dedistributive  policymaking by the U.S. Congress, whereby Congress delegates its decision-making power to ad hoc commissions or implements constraints that compel it to make decisions within prescribed limits. Elected public officials seem unwilling to make, or believe themselves unable to be  held responsible  for,  dedistributive  policy. Thus, means are devised to actually make the decisions, while allowing elected officials to evade responsibility. The Base Realignment and Closing Commission (BRAC), which aimed to get politics out of military base closings, is a quintessential example of such means. At the heart of these considerations is the question of with whom or where responsibility should rest. The American people are left to decide whether to hold unelected and more or less  unsupervised  individuals, commissions, and the like responsible for their greater well being while officially elected individuals quietly cede responsibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven E. Schier,Lilly J. Goren\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820455245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820455242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Steven E. Schier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48441364349183,"sku":"9780820455242","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8cd4f9b3-d980-453e-ad29-4a667144a813.jpg?v=1777190421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-politics-of-military-base-steven-e-schier-9780820455242","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}