LEADER 04705nam 2200625 450 001 9910816641503321 005 20240110140541.0 010 $a1-4384-4924-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000086790 035 $a(EBL)3408832 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001115585 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12411608 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115585 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11082894 035 $a(PQKB)11242257 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408832 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408832 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10830494 035 $a(OCoLC)870646813 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000086790 100 $a20140211h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe devil is in the details $eunderstanding the causes of policy specificity and ambiguity /$fRachel VanSickle-Ward 210 1$aAlbany, New York :$cSUNY Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (243 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4384-4923-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""Directions for Future Research"" 330 $a"Seeks to explain the causes of ambiguously worded state legislation"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aLegislation$zUnited States 606 $aPublic policy (Law)$zUnited States 606 $aLegislative bodies$zUnited States$xStates 615 0$aLegislation 615 0$aPublic policy (Law) 615 0$aLegislative bodies$xStates. 676 $a328.73/077 700 $aVanSickle-Ward$b Rachel$f1977-$01609528 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816641503321 996 $aThe devil is in the details$93936823 997 $aUNINA