By Rachel VanSickle-Ward
The point of aspect in a given legislations may have dramatic effects for the way that legislations is interpreted and utilized. In The satan Is within the Details, Rachel VanSickle-Ward makes a speciality of the dynamics of social coverage development within the usa which will larger comprehend why the wording of laws can variety from the explicit to the ambiguous. whilst rules are excessive salience, the fissures produced by way of partisan discord, curiosity staff range, and pluralistic government branches advertise ambiguous coverage. while regulations are decrease profile, this courting is extra tenuous and, from time to time, inverted, with rivalry generating extra coverage element. positioned easily, on very important and arguable laws, ambiguity serves as a car for compromise while key members disagree over information. in addition, fragmentation is a extra strong motive force of ambiguity than limits in technical services or legislative ability. This multi-method research is the 1st to degree statute specificity at once. VanSickle-Ward combines finished content material research of greater than 250 healthiness and welfare debts handed in forty four states within the Nineteen Nineties and 2000s with in-depth interviews of policy-making elites.
“VanSickle-Ward’s booklet is concise and good prepared … her findings and research are compelling and feature major implications … This e-book is definitely suited to normal educational and educational legislation libraries, specially people with robust public coverage collections.” — Law Library Journal
“…a thorough quantitative research that sheds gentle on a primary query concerning the public coverage process.” — CHOICE
Rachel VanSickle-Ward is Assistant Professor of Political reviews at Pitzer College.
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