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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Abortion Politics in Congress by Scott H. Ainsworth, Thad E. Hall This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external factors and internal factors shape the development of abortion policy. The authors present a simple, formal model of strategic incrementalism, illustrating that legislators often have incentives to alter policy incrementally. FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external factors (such as public opinion) and internal factors (such as the ideological composition of committees and party systems) shape the development of abortion policy. Driven by both theoretical and empirical concerns, Scott H. Ainsworth and Thad E. Hall present a simple, formal model of strategic incrementalism, illustrating that legislators often have incentives to alter policy incrementally. They then examine the sponsorship of abortion-related proposals as well as their committee referral and find that a wide range of Democratic and Republican legislators repeatedly offer abortion-related proposals designed to alter abortion policy incrementally. Abortion Politics in Congress reveals that abortion debates have permeated a wide range of issues and that a wide range of legislators and a large number of committees address abortion. Back Cover "...a brilliant, provocative, and persuasive exploration of a root cause of the failure of modern financial market regulation, engendered by lawmakers, regulators and prosecutors, and their legal and accounting acolytes.... A must-read for anyone concerned about the health and well-being of our capital and financial markets." -- Harvey Pitt , CEO of global business consultancy Kalorama Partners, formerly 26th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2001-2003) The real reasons why we can no longer trust Wall Street and what to do about it How the SEC got captured--and why it's perfectly happy about that Essential reading for every policymaker, financial executive, investor, and citizen concerned with well-functioning capital markets Trust and reputation are central to the operation of capital markets. But in our generation, reputational mechanisms are failing, and when these fail, markets and societies will fail as well. The conventional response is more aggressive regulation. But this only worsens the problem. In The Death of Corporate Reputation , one of the world's leading experts in financial market regulation explains why. Yale Law School's Jonathan R. Macey demonstrates how and why poorly considered regulation has undermined traditional trust mechanisms throughout financial institutions, accounting and law firms, credit ratings agencies, and stock exchanges alike. Macey retells Wall Street's recent history in a new and more productive light, revealing what has really happened--and offering a different and better path back to trust and integrity. For more than a century, law firms, investment banks, accounting firms, credit rating agencies, and companies seeking regular access to U.S. capital markets made large investments in their reputations. They generally treated their customers well and occasionally even endured losses to maintain their reputations as faithful brokers, dealers' issuers, and "gatekeepers." This has changed. Today's leading capital market participants no longer treat customers as valued counterparties whose trust must be earned and nurtured but as distant "counter-parties" to whom no duties are required. The rough and tumble norms of the marketplace have replaced the long-standing fiduciary model in U.S. finance. The result has been unrelenting financial scandal. In The Death of Corporate Reputation , pioneering corporate law and governance expert and Yale professor Jonathan Macey describes the disastrous transformation from the old reputational model to the existing buyer beware model in finance. Macey convincingly argues that the change can be attributed to several factors, including (1) the growth of reliance on regulation rather than reputation to protect customers and (2) growing regulatory complexity, which has made technical expertise more important to customers than reputation. After identifying the heart of the problem, he offers a better path forward--and a true "silver lining" in the age of Madoff. Why traditional methods of fraud deterrence have failed in finance The unintended consequences of aggressive overregulation--and how to fix them It's not just the banks: touring post-reputation Wall Street Failure of reputation in accounting and law firms, rating agencies, and exchanges Milken and beyond: why "nobody goes down with the ship" anymore Why the employees of scandal-tarnished firms keep right on thriving The perverse incentives that make the SEC so ineffective Responding to the wrong metrics, driven by the wrong politics Author Biography Scott H. Ainsworth is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. His work on lobbying, interest groups and the U.S. Congress has appeared in numerous outlets, including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics and Legislative Studies Quarterly. He is the author of Analyzing Interest Groups. Thad E. Hall is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a Research Fellow at the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Utah. He has authored or coauthored three books - Point, Click, and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting, Electronic Elections: The Perils and Promise of Digital Democracy and Authorizing Policy - and coedited the book Election Fraud: Detecting and Preventing Electoral Manipulation. He has written more than 20 articles and book chapters examining various aspects of public policy. Table of Contents Part I. Strategic Incrementalism and the Political Backdrop for Abortion Politics in Congress: 1. Some of the politics surrounding abortion policy; 2. The strategic foundations for incrementalism in legislatures; 3. The nature of Congress and incrementalism in abortion politics: views from the inside and views from the outside; 4. A short legislative history of abortion; Part II. Abortion in the House: 5. Sponsors of abortion policies; 6. Playing the field: committee referrals of abortion-related proposals; 7. Conclusion. Review 'This book proposes a new understanding of why political actors with extreme opinions might support only marginal adjustments to existing policies. The case of abortion would seem to preclude half-way positions, but Ainsworth and Hall's 'strategic incrementalism' explains what previously appeared a puzzle. The work will have a major impact on how we think of how politicians stake out their public positions on issues of controversy.' Frank Baumgartner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'This book raises intriguing possibilities about representation and lawmaking, and it holds together nicely. Ainsworth and Hall have woven together a coherent account of policymaking that brings in two sides of the story: the representational side, how members of Congress relate to their constituents, and the organizational side, how Congress passes legislation. It will gain attention from scholars and students of American politics across a range of subfields.' Ken Kollman, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor'With this book, Ainsworth and Hall make a significant and compelling contribution to our understanding of issue politics, the legislative process, and ideological trends over time. Their innovative theory and use of sophisticated modeling to study this issue forges a new path for students of congressional politics.' Wendy Schiller, Brown University'The authors' analysis is nuanced and yields robust and substantively significant findings.' Political Studies Promotional This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures. Review Quote "With this book, Ainsworth and Hall make a significant and compelling contribution to our understanding of issue politics, the legislative process, and ideological trends over time. Their innovative theory and use of sophisticated modeling to study this issue forges a new path for students of congressional politics." - Wendy Schiller, Brown University Promotional "Headline" This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures. Description for Bookstore This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external factors and internal factors shape the development of abortion policy. The authors present a simple, formal model of strategic incrementalism, illustrating that legislators often have incentives to alter policy incrementally. Description for Library This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external factors and internal factors shape the development of abortion policy. The authors present a simple, formal model of strategic incrementalism, illustrating that legislators often have incentives to alter policy incrementally. Details ISBN0521740045 Author Thad E. Hall Pages 240 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2010 ISBN-10 0521740045 ISBN-13 9780521740043 Format Paperback Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Strategic Incrementalism and Policy Change Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication, Cambridge University Press<
