The devil is in the details : understanding the causes of policy specificity and ambiguity / / Rachel VanSickle-Ward

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789034303321
• Autore: VanSickle-Ward Rachel <1977->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4384-4924-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 328.73/077
• Soggetti: Legislation - United States; Public policy (Law) - United States; Legislative bodies - United States - States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""The Devil is in the Details: Understanding the Causes of Policy Specificity and Ambiguity""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction: The Political Story of Policy Precision""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity""; ""The Language of Law""; ""Social Policy in the States""; ""Overview of the Book""; ""Chapter 2: The Puzzle of Statute Specificity""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity in the Judicial Context""; ""Fragmentation and Ambiguity in the Bureaucratic Context""; ""Bureaucracy Research in the States""; ""A Conditional Theory of Statute Specificity""""Salience in the Conditional Model""; ""Assessing Specificity and Salience""; ""Sources of Fragmentation""; ""Party Control and Polarization""; ""Interest Group Density and Diversity""; ""Gubernatorial Powers""; ""Speaker's Power""; ""Capacity Variables: Legislative and Bureaucratic Professionalization and Term Limits""; ""Summary of Hypotheses""; ""Chapter 3: Perspectives of Policy-Making Elites""; ""Methodology""; ""Overcoming Fragmentation: Compromise through Ambiguity""; ""The Role of Committees""; ""Interest Groups and Stakeholders""; ""Partisan Conflict""""The Role of the Executive""; ""Alternatives for Overcoming Fragmentation: Compromise through Specificity""; ""The Role of Interest Groups Revisited""; ""Fragmentation and Protecting the Status Quo""; ""Committee Pressure for More Specificity""; ""Specificity ; and Negotiations with the Executive Branch""; ""Resources and Procedural Factors: Term limits, Turnover, and Time Constraints""; ""How Salience Shapes Strategy: Articulating the Conditional Model""; ""Something Old and Something New""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 4: Policy Specificity in a High-Salience Context: Mental Health Parity""""Mental Health Insurance""; ""Specificity in State Mental Health Parity Statutes""; ""Political and Institutional Fragmentation""; ""Findings""; ""Chapter 5: Policy Specificity in a Low-Salience Context: Individual Development Accounts""; ""Individual Development Accounts""; ""Assessing Specificity in IDA Bills""; ""Sources of Fragmentation (Independent Variables)""; ""Findings""; ""Evidence for the Conditional Model of Fragmentation""; ""Chapter 6: Fragmentation and Policy Specificity in California Legislation""""The California Policy-Making Environment""; ""Institutional Conditions""; ""Political Conditions""; ""Bill-Specific Variables""; ""California Social Policy""; ""Health Policy""; ""Welfare Policy""; ""Methodology""; ""Measurement of the Dependent Variable: Recalibrating Statute Specificity""; ""Hypotheses""; ""Findings""; ""Descriptive Findings""; ""Multivariate Analyses""; ""The Conditional Effects of Salience""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 7: Conclusion""; ""Review of Findings""; ""Normative Implications""; ""Directions for Future Research""
• Sommario/riassunto: "Seeks to explain the causes of ambiguously worded state legislation"--Provided by publisher.