Contrary to stylized accounts of policy making in democracies, it is routine for presidents,
governors, and other chief executives to issue directives such as decrees and executive …

Rulemaking is a critical part of American government and governance. This article reviews
the political underpinnings of modern rulemaking. Specifically, it highlights the process and …

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

Considered the gold standard on interest group politics, this widely-used text analyzes
interest groups within the intuitive framework of democratic theory, enabling readers to …

Over a lifetime of work as a scholar who is unequalled in his simultaneous devotion to the
fields of administrative law and legislation, Peter Strauss's insistence that legal theory and …

For more than twenty years, Environmental Policy and Politics has kept instructors and
students abreast of the challenges presented by contemporary environmental, energy, and …

Many firms attempt to manage their legal and regulatory environments by influencing policy
makers. Typically, researchers have focused on how firms use nonmarket actions, including …

A large body of literature in administrative law discusses presidential control of executive
agencies through centralized review of regulations in the Office of Information and …

Governing Health examines health care policy making from a long-term, political
perspective, describing how Congress, the president, special interest groups, bureaucracy …

Perceptions of the policy leanings of government agencies are an important component of
an agency's political environment, and an agency's political environment can greatly …