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The federal design dilemma : Congress and intergovernmental delegation / Pamela J. Clouser McCann, University of Southern California.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clouser McCann, Pamela J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Congress.
- United States.
- United States. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
- Federal government--United States.
- Federal government.
- Central-local government relations--United States.
- Central-local government relations.
- Intergovernmental cooperation--United States.
- Intergovernmental cooperation.
- Decentralization in government--United States.
- Decentralization in government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- The level of government responsible for implementing policies affects intent, services provided, and ultimate outcomes. The decision about where to locate such responsibility is the federal design dilemma faced by Congress. Taking a new approach to this delegation and decentralization, The Federal Design Dilemma focuses on individual members of Congress. Not only are these legislators elected by constituents from their states, they also consider the outcomes that will result from state-level versus national executive branch implementation of policies. Here, Pamela J. Clouser McCann documents congressional intergovernmental delegation between 1973 and 2010, and how individual legislators voted on decentralization and centralization choices. Clouser McCann traces the path of the Affordable Care Act from legislative proposals in each chamber to its final enactment, focusing on how legislators wrestled with their own intergovernmental context and the federal design of health insurance reform in the face of political challenges.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The federal design dilemma
- a puzzle of intergovernmental delegation; 2. A theory of federal delegation design; 3. Measuring the federal allocation of authority; 4. Intergovernmental context and congressional coalition formation; 5. Congressional intergovernmental delegation of authority from 1973-2010; 6. Intergovernmental options and the politics of health insurance reform; 7. The intergovernmental context of federal policy design.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Aug 2016).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-59432-7
- 1-316-59516-1
- 1-316-59530-7
- 1-316-59544-7
- 1-316-59558-7
- 1-316-59614-1
- 1-316-27508-6
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