TY - BOOK ID - 6979039 TI - Deliberate discretion AU - Huber, John D AU - Shipan, Charles R PY - 2002 SN - 0521817447 0521520703 0511804911 9780521817448 9780521520706 9780511804915 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Separation of powers KW - Political planning KW - Bureaucracy KW - Law KW - Comparative government KW - Political aspects KW - Law and politics KW - #SBIB:35H006 KW - #SBIB:324H20 KW - #SBIB:033.IO KW - Comparative political systems KW - Comparative politics KW - Government, Comparative KW - Political systems, Comparative KW - Political science KW - Interorganizational relations KW - Public administration KW - Organizational sociology KW - Planning in politics KW - Public policy KW - Planning KW - Policy sciences KW - Politics, Practical KW - Checks and balances (Separation of powers) KW - Division of powers KW - Powers, Separation of KW - Constitutional law KW - Delegation of powers KW - Executive power KW - Judicial independence KW - Judicial power KW - Judicial review KW - Legislative power KW - Bestuurswetenschappen: theorieën KW - Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) KW - Law and legislation KW - #A0506SO KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Law - Political aspects KW - Separation of powers. KW - Political planning. KW - Bureaucracy. KW - Comparative government. KW - Political aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6979039 AB - The laws that legislatures adopt provide the most important and definitive opportunity elected politicians have to define public policy. But the ways politicians use laws to shape policy varies considerably across polities. In some cases, legislatures adopt detailed and specific laws in efforts to micromanage policy-making processes. In others, they adopt general and vague laws that leave the executive and bureaucrats substantial autonomy to fill in the policy details. What explains these differences across political systems, and how do they matter? The authors address this issue by developing and testing a comparative theory of how laws shape bureaucratic autonomy. Drawing on a range of evidence from advanced parliamentary democracies and the American states, they argue that particular institutional forms have a systematic and predictable effect on how politicians use laws to shape the policy making process. ER -