1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464905303321

Autore

VanSickle-Ward Rachel <1977->

Titolo

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

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

Electronic books.

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""



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996385567503316

Autore

Moore Andrew, Gent

Titolo

A compendious history of the Turks [[electronic resource] ] : containing an exact account of the originall of that people; the rise of the Othoman family; and the valiant undertakings of the Christians against them: with their various events. / / By Andrew Moore, Gent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by John Streater, 1660 [i.e. 1659]

Descrizione fisica

[4], 624, 621-882, 882, 893-1290, 1287-1434, [14] p

Soggetti

Turks - Kings and rulers

Turkey History Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nouem. 1659"; the 0 in the imprint has been crossed out.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018