In Praise of Deadlock: How Partisan Struggle Makes Better Laws - Couverture souple

Rawls, W. Lee

 
9780801894039: In Praise of Deadlock: How Partisan Struggle Makes Better Laws

Synopsis

With budget reconciliations, filibusters, and supermajorities making headlines, In Praise of Deadlock explains the legislative process and its checkpoints, while maintaining a noncomformist respect for the hurdles and hang-ups inherent in the American system. As a practitioner who served for 14 years as chief of staff to Senators Bill Frist and Pete Domenici, W. Lee Rawls offers unusual insight into partisan struggle, which he sees as essential to advancing new policy and generating consensus. Such grappling, Rawls concludes, results in a nuanced, durable machine, producing better laws that have benefited from minority input.

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À propos de l?auteur

W. Lee Rawls was chief of staff to the director of the FBI and an adjunct professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. He was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2007. Mr. Rawls died in 2010.

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0801894042 ISBN 13 :  9780801894046
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
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