Backdoor Lawmaking - Ritchie
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Civics textbooks focus on how Congress makes policy through the legislative process, but the reality is that members of Congress have limited opportunities to advance their policy priorities. In fact, less than five percent of the bills that are introduced in Congress become law. What strategies do lawmakers have for navigating obstacles in Congress? In this book, Melinda N. Ritchie reveals how members of Congress use the federal bureaucracy as a backdoor for policymaking. Drawing on an original dataset constructed from records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Ritchie traces the…mehr

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Civics textbooks focus on how Congress makes policy through the legislative process, but the reality is that members of Congress have limited opportunities to advance their policy priorities. In fact, less than five percent of the bills that are introduced in Congress become law. What strategies do lawmakers have for navigating obstacles in Congress? In this book, Melinda N. Ritchie reveals how members of Congress use the federal bureaucracy as a backdoor for policymaking. Drawing on an original dataset constructed from records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Ritchie traces the interactions between members of Congress and federal agencies to illustrate how these communications function as part of a lawmaker's overarching strategy for policymaking.
Autorenporträt
Melinda N. Ritchie is Assistant Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. Her research interests include American political institutions, US Congress, bureaucratic politics, and the impact of separation of powers on policymaking. From 2007 to 2009, she worked in the office of New York congressman Brian Higgins. Her work has appeared in Political Behavior, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly , and the American Journal of Political Science. In 2020, she received the Emerging Scholar Award in Legislative Studies from the American Political Science Association.