Policy Drift - Norma M Riccucci

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Résumé :

The role of formal and informal institutional forces in changing three areas of U.S. public policy: privacy rights, civil rights and climate policy
There is no finality to the public policy process. Although it's often assumed that once a law is enacted it is implemented faithfully, even policies believed to be stable can change or drift in unexpected directions. The Fourth Amendment, for example, guarantees Americans' privacy rights, but the 9/11 terrorist attacks set off one of the worst cases of government-sponsored espionage. Policy changes instituted by the National Security Agency led to widespread warrantless surveillance, a drift in public policy that led to lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of wiretapping the American people.
Much of the research in recent decades ignores the impact of large-scale, slow-moving, secular forces in political, social, and economic environments on public policy. In Policy Drift, Norma Riccucci sheds light on how institutional forces collectively contributed to major change in three key areas of U.S. policy (privacy rights, civil rights, and climate policy) without any new policy explicitly being written. Formal levers of change-U.S. Supreme Court decisions...

Biographie:
Norma M. Riccucci is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Public Administration at Rutgers-Newark. She is the author of several books and textbooks, including Public Administration: Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge and How Management Matters: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform....

Sommaire:
inaction by Congress...