Rulemaking: How Government Agencies Write Law and Make Policy - Softcover

Kerwin, Cornelius Martin; Furlong, Scott R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872893375 ISBN 13: 9780872893375

Publisher: CQ Press, 2010

Synopsis

Rulemaking is the single most important function performed by government agencies. While Congress and the president provide the general framework for the government’s mission, rulemaking fills in the details that define the law and delineate how each agency carries out its responsibilities. Cornelius Kerwin, and new co-author Scott Furlong, update this highly regarded text with new data, fresh analysis of interest groups’ participation in rulemaking, as well as coverage of the Obama administration’s early actions, from executive orders and key personnel to agencies’ responses to changes. An invaluable and accessible guide to this intensely political process, Rulemaking contains the most current scholarship on a crucial yet understudied subject.

About this title

About the Author:

Cornelius M. Kerwin is currently the provost of American University and a professor of public adminstration in American University′s School of Public Affairs. Dr. Kerwin served as the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) for the 1998-1999 term. Additionally, he worked as a consultant for several organizations, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Review:

The strengths of Rulemaking are the comprehensive foundations and history of the rulemaking process, the engaging writing style, and the discussions of issues of management surrounding rulemaking. The authors give a balanced approach, and in fact, they do an excellent job of maintaining objectivity especially in discussions of congressional and presidential participation in rulemaking. In general, the book provides a good balance between description, example, and analysis in each chapter and it does a wonderful job of providing an overview of the impact of rulemaking on the policy process. --Kay Hofer, Texas State University at San Marcos

Rulemaking is the ideal single-source treatment of a complicated subject. Through readable prose and interesting examples, Kerwin and Furlong manage to highlight all of the relevant procedural and political facets of administrative lawmaking; they convey the nuances and practicalities of how rulemakers interact with their overseers in the political and judicial branches. Their discussion of overarching theory and current empirical research manages to be sophisticated without being stuffy. Whether used in its entirety as I have done for thousands of students in regulatory politics courses or more selectively, the professor can be sure that students will be well served! --Glenn Smith, University of California, San Diego

Rulemaking is the ideal single-source treatment of a complicated subject. Through readable prose and interesting examples, Kerwin and Furlong manage to highlight all of the relevant procedural and political facets of administrative lawmaking; they convey the nuances and practicalities of how rulemakers interact with their overseers in the political and judicial branches. Their discussion of overarching theory and current empirical research manages to be sophisticated without being stuffy. Whether used in its entirety as I have done for thousands of students in regulatory politics courses or more selectively, the professor can be sure that students will be well served! --Glenn Smith, University of California, San Diego

About this edition

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0872893375
• ISBN 13: 9780872893375
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 344