Making Government Work: From White House To Congress / Edition 1

by Robert E. Hunter

Overview

This book is a practical and realistic blueprint for change in the U.S. government. Using case studies that illustrate central issues in legislative-executive relations, it dissects key problems plaguing and often paralyzing the conduct of the government.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367156190
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/19/2020
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.69(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert E. Hunter is director of European studies at CSIS and a contributing editor of The Washington Quarterly.

Wayne L. Berman, a Washington lobbyist with the firm of Berman, Bergner, and Boyette, Inc., codirects CSIS's programs on Executive-Legislative Relations and National Elections Reform.

John F. Kennedy is staff director of the Commission on National Elections and is assistant director of CSIS's European Studies Program.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The System CAN Work: The Trade Act of 1979 2. Congress and the Legislative Veto: Choices Since the Chadha Decision 3. The Many Faces of Congressional Budgeting 4. The War Powers Resolution: A Continuing Constitutional Struggle 5. Congress: Defense and the Foreign Policy Process 6. Foreign Policy Making on the Hill 7. Interest Groups and Lobbying 8. Steering Committee Report: Policy Paper on Legislative-Executive Reform