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UNINA9910816641503321 |
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VanSickle-Ward Rachel <1977-> |
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The devil is in the details : understanding the causes of policy specificity and ambiguity / / Rachel VanSickle-Ward |
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Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (243 p.) |
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Legislation - United States |
Public policy (Law) - United States |
Legislative bodies - United States - States |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""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 |
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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"" |
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"Seeks to explain the causes of ambiguously worded state legislation"--Provided by publisher. |
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UNINA9911046547303321 |
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Lubot Rebecca C |
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Keeping a Finger on the Button : Presidential Continuity and the Nuclear Age / / by Rebecca C. Lubot |
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Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025 |
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[1st ed. 2025.] |
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1 online resource (385 pages) |
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Political Science and International Studies |
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World politics |
America - Politics and government |
United States - History |
Political History |
American Politics |
US History |
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AN AMENDMENT AT THE CROSSROADS OF NUCLEAR POWER AND PRESIDENTIAL FALLIBILITY -- CHAPTER 2 TIME QUICKENS THE HISTORY OF SUDDEN SUCCESSIONS AND SUCCESSION SOLUTIONS PRIOR TO THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT -- CHAPTER 3 THE NUCLEAR PARADOX POWER, FALLIBILITY, AND THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT -- CHAPTER 4 INGRAINING ANXIETY: RATIFYING THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT IN THE NUCLEAR AGE -- CHAPTER 5 A DR. STRANGELOVE SITUATION THE TWENTY FIFTH AMENDMENT IN PRACTICE -- CHAPTER 6 THE [DOOMSDAY] CLOCK TICKS THE TWENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT ON THE PRECIPICE -- CHAPTER 7 CONCLUSION THE NEXT STAGES: NUCLEAR ANXIETY AND THE AMENDMENT. |
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Rebecca Lubot's book provides a vital understanding of the nation's anxieties around the most important presidential power of all—the unilateral launch of nuclear weapons. She provides valuable insight into the too-often-overlooked complexities of the 25th Amendment —the nation's playbook of how Doomsday might someday unfold—while raising critical questions about its existing ambiguities that should |
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worry America's policymakers. --Garrett Graff, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate: A New History Keeping a Finger on the Button compellingly uncovers an underappreciated story about the Constitution and the presidency. Combining impressive research and sharp analysis, this is a timely and fascinating read. --John Rogan, Fordham Law School The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has once again returned to the center of our political debates. Rebecca Lubot has delivered an authoritative, original, detailed account of how this vital part of the Constitution came into being—and how it continues to play out in our politics today. Keeping a Finger on the Button sheds needed light on presidential power in an era of global tension and democratic crisis. -- David Greenberg, Pulitzer Prize finalist for John Lewis: A Life Drawing on unmined archives and original interviews, Rebecca Lubot tells the story of how US lawmakers grappled with issues over presidential succession and inability and vice-presidential vacancy and ultimately ratified the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. She argues that nuclear anxiety played a crucial role in the development of the amendment and its aftereffects, showing how politics and culture reflected this anxiety, and multiple administrations intensified it. She also offers solutions to the amendment’s gaps. As the threat of accident, miscalculation, or madness looms, never has a book on the intersection of presidential continuity and the nuclear age been more necessary. Rebecca C. Lubot is CEO and founder of Lubot Strategies. She earned her doctorate in US history from Rutgers University, a Master of Science in the theory and history of international relations from The London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Boston University. |
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