A01=Terrence R Tutchings
Author_Terrence R Tutchings
Balanced Commissions
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CIA Agent
congressional response
Educational Affiliations
elite influence politics
Elite Membership
Energy Policy
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executive branch analysis
government advisory bodies
Intermediate Care Facilities
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ira Sharkansky
legislative response studies
organizational dynamics
pluralism in policymaking
policy process modeling
policymaking process
Political Finance
President's Materials Policy Commission
President's National Advisory Commission
President's Task Force
President's Water Resources Policy
Presidential Support
President’s Materials Policy Commission
President’s National Advisory Commission
President’s Task Force
President’s Water Resources Policy
Proportionate Representation
public commission effectiveness research
public commissions
Public Interest Sector
Recommendation Sets
Recommendation Type
Richardson Foundation
Rockefeller III
State Workmen's Compensation Laws
State Workmen’s Compensation Laws
Universal Training
Vice Versa
Water Resources Policy Commission
Product details
- ISBN 9780367286033
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 140 x 224mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since 1945, the role of the president in shaping domestic and foreign policy has changed dramatically. Though the prodigious growth of the federal bureaucracy under the Executive Branch reflects much of this change, bureaucratic response to the major issues of the past three decades has been ineffective or nonexistent, and a notable parallel development has been the increasing use of public commissions in the policymaking process. Dr. Tutchings studies more than 100 public commissions using a model of the policymaking process that includes demands, decision and information costs, and policy results and outcomes. Reviewing the results of the commissions as reflected in presidential support of recommendations (via proposed legislation) and in congressional response, he notes that their membership has typically been dominated by government/corporate elites: as this membership has become more pluralistic, there has been a sharp decline in the contributions of the commissions to the policymaking process. Perhaps the most significant contribution of the book is its detailed development of the concept of rhetorical policy as a first step in the policymaking process.
Terrence R. Tutchings is adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and executive associate at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.
