The Unelected

Author : James R. Copland
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781641771214

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America is highly polarized around elections, but unelected actors make many of the decisions that affect our lives. In this lucid history, James R. Copland explains how unaccountable agents have taken over much of the U.S. government apparatus. Congress has largely abdicated its authority. “Independent” administrative agencies churn out thousands of new regulations every year. Courts have enabled these rulemakers to expand their powers beyond those authorized by law—and have constrained executive efforts to rein in the bureaucratic behemoth. No ordinary citizen can know what is legal and what is not. There are some 300,000 federal crimes, 98 percent of which were created by administrative action. The proliferation of rules gives enormous discretion to unelected enforcers, and the severity of sanctions can be ruinous to citizens who unwittingly violate a regulation. Outside the bureaucracy, private attorneys regulate our conduct through lawsuits. Most of the legal theories underlying these suits were never voted upon by our elected representatives. A combination of historical accident, decisions by judges and law professors, and self-interested advocacy by litigators has built an onerous and expensive legal regime. Finally, state and local officials may be accountable to their own voters, but some reach further afield, pursuing agendas to dictate the terms of national commerce. These new antifederalists are subjecting the citizens of Wyoming and Mississippi to the whims of the electorates of New York and San Francisco—contrary to the constitutional design. In these ways, the unelected have assumed substantial control of the American republic, upended the rule of law, given the United States the world’s costliest legal system, and inverted the Constitution’s federalism. Copland caps off his account with ideas for charting a corrective course back to democratic accountability.

Author : Paul Tucker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691196305

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Unelected Power by Paul Tucker Pdf

Tucker presents guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good.

Author : Erik O. Eriksen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000409543

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The Accountability of Expertise by Erik O. Eriksen Pdf

Based on in-depth studies of the relationship between expertise and democracy in Europe, this book presents a new approach to how the un-elected can be made safe for democracy. It addresses the challenge of reconciling modern governments’ need for knowledge with the demand for democratic legitimacy. Knowledge-based decision-making is indispensable to modern democracies. This book establishes a public reason model of legitimacy and clarifies the conditions under which unelected bodies can be deemed legitimate as they are called upon to handle pandemics, financial crises, climate change and migration flows. Expert bodies are seeking neither re-election nor popularity, they can speak truth to power as well as to the citizenry at large. They are unelected, yet they wield power. How could they possibly be legitimate? This book is of key interest to scholars and students of democracy, governance, and more broadly to political and administrative science as well as the Science Technology Studies (STS).

Author : Frank Vibert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139464727

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The Rise of the Unelected by Frank Vibert Pdf

Unelected bodies, such as independent central banks, economic regulators, risk managers and auditors have become a worldwide phenomenon. Democracies are increasingly turning to them to demarcate boundaries between the market and the state, to resolve conflicts of interest and to allocate resources, even in sensitive ethical areas such as those involving privacy or biotechnology. This book examines the challenge that unelected bodies present to democracy and argues that, taken together, such bodies should be viewed as a new branch of government with their own sources of legitimacy and held to account through a new separation of powers. Vibert suggests that such bodies help promote a more informed citizenry because they provide a more trustworthy and reliable source of information for decisions. This book will be of interest to specialists and general readers with an interest in modern democracy as well as policy makers, think tanks and journalists.

Author : Jennifer Bachner,Benjamin Ginsberg
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633882492

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What Washington Gets Wrong by Jennifer Bachner,Benjamin Ginsberg Pdf

"This book reveals a surprising ignorance on the part of unelected federal officials regarding the life circumstances and opinions of average Americans as well as an attitude of condescension"--

Author : Frank Vibert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521694140

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The Rise of the Unelected by Frank Vibert Pdf

This book examines the challenge that unelected bodies such as economic regulators present to democracy, and argues that they should be seen as a new branch of government and held to account through a new separation of powers.

Author : Michael J. Malbin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980-10-02
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015005160323

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Unelected Representatives by Michael J. Malbin Pdf

Author : Lisa Friedman
Publisher : Bernan Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781598882988

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The Almanac of the Unelected by Lisa Friedman Pdf

The Almanac of the Unelected is the leading source for information about Congressional staff: the essential individuals who help elected officials establish political positions on issues, craft legislation, and put policies in place. This new edition features in-depth profiles of more than 600 senior Congressional committee staff members.

Author : Bernan Press,Suzanne Struglinski
Publisher : Bernan Press
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781598884166

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Almanac of the Unelected by Bernan Press,Suzanne Struglinski Pdf

The next time you need to find out who is the most effective person to advocate your cause D turn to the Almanac of the Unelected for all the answers. The Almanac of the Unelected contains in-depth profiles on key congressional staff members that you will not find elsewhere. The information provided on these personnel gives you not only the contact information and other pertinent data but also the inside track to those people. These are the staffers who work with and support the representatives and senators in various important roles that help to enact change or refine existing laws and codes that govern our nation. With all the sweeping changes that have taken place since the Obama administration took office, this essential resource has never been more important or more valuable. This new edition features over 125 new profiles and is designed to be the ultimate for quick and easy reference.

Author : Suzanne Struglinski,Samantha Young
Publisher : Bernan Press
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781598886320

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The Almanac of the Unelected, 2013 by Suzanne Struglinski,Samantha Young Pdf

The next time you need to find out who is the most effective person to advocate your cause, turn to the Almanac of the Unelected for all the answers. The Almanac of the Unelected contains in-depth profiles on key congressional staff members that you will not find elsewhere. The information provided on these personnel gives you not only the contact information and other pertinent data but also the inside track to those people. These are the staffers who work with and support the representatives and senators in various important roles that help to enact change or refine existing laws and codes that govern our nation. With all the changes that have taken place this essential resource has never been more important or more valuable.

Author : Paul Street
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317250593

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They Rule by Paul Street Pdf

They Rule reflects on key political questions raised by the Occupy movement, showing how similar questions have been raised by previous generations of radical activists: who really owns and rules the US? Does it matter that the nation is divided by stark class disparities and a concentration of wealth in the hands of a few? Along the way, this book sharpens readers' sense of who the US oligarchy are, including how their fortunes have changed over the course of US history, how they live and think and how to detect and de-cloak them. They Rule is a masterful historical and political analysis, revealing what lies beneath the surface of US society and what ordinary people can do to bring about social change.

Author : Anthony Michael Bertelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107169715

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Democracy Administered by Anthony Michael Bertelli Pdf

Those who implement policies have the discretion to shape democratic values. Public administration is not policy administered, but democracy administered.

Author : Marty Cohen,David Karol,Hans Noel,John Zaller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226112381

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The Party Decides by Marty Cohen,David Karol,Hans Noel,John Zaller Pdf

Throughout the contest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, politicians and voters alike worried that the outcome might depend on the preferences of unelected superdelegates. This concern threw into relief the prevailing notion that—such unusually competitive cases notwithstanding—people, rather than parties, should and do control presidential nominations. But for the past several decades, The Party Decides shows, unelected insiders in both major parties have effectively selected candidates long before citizens reached the ballot box. Tracing the evolution of presidential nominations since the 1790s, this volume demonstrates how party insiders have sought since America’s founding to control nominations as a means of getting what they want from government. Contrary to the common view that the party reforms of the 1970s gave voters more power, the authors contend that the most consequential contests remain the candidates’ fights for prominent endorsements and the support of various interest groups and state party leaders. These invisible primaries produce frontrunners long before most voters start paying attention, profoundly influencing final election outcomes and investing parties with far more nominating power than is generally recognized.

Author : Gary Ginsberg
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538702949

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First Friends by Gary Ginsberg Pdf

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A USA TODAY "BEST BOOKS OF 2021" PICK! In the bestselling tradition of The Presidents Club and Presidential Courage, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends and closest confidants of American presidents. Here are the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them: Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed: They shared a bed for four years during which Speed saved his friend from a crippling depression. Two decades later the friends worked together to save the Union. Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson: When Truman wavered on whether to recognize the state of Israel in 1948, his lifelong friend and former business partner intervened at just the right moment with just the right words to steer the president’s decision. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Daisy Suckley: Unassuming and overlooked during her lifetime, Daisy Suckley was in reality FDR’s most trusted, constant confidant, the respite for a lonely and overworked President navigating the Great Depression and World War II John Kennedy and David Ormsby-Gore: They met as young men in pre-war London and began a conversation over the meaning of leadership. A generation later the Cuban Missile Crisis would put their ideas to test as Ormsby-Gore became the president’s unofficial, but most valued foreign policy advisor. These and other friendships—including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Bill Clinton and Vernon Jordan—populate this fresh and provocative exploration of a series of seminal presidential friendships. Publishing history teems with books by and about Presidents, First Ladies, First Pets, and even First Chefs. Now former Clinton aide Gary Ginsberg breaks new literary ground on Pennsylvania Avenue and provides fresh insights into the lives of the men who held the most powerful political office in the world by looking at the friends on whom they relied. First Friends is an engaging, serendipitous look into the lives of Commanders-in-Chief and how their presidencies were shaped by those they held most dear.

Author : Jay Sekulow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781476795683

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Undemocratic by Jay Sekulow Pdf

Jay Sekulow—one of America’s most influential attorneys—explores a post Obama landscape where bureaucracy has taken over our government and provides a practical roadmap to help take back our personal liberties. Jay Sekulow is on a mission to defend Americans’ freedom. The fact is that freedom is under attack like never before. The threat comes from the fourth branch of government—the biggest branch—and the only branch not in the Constitution: the federal bureaucracy. The bureaucracy imposes thousands of new laws every year, without a single vote from Congress. The bureaucracy violates the rights of Americans without accountability—persecuting adoptive parents, denying veterans quality healthcare, discriminating against conservatives and Christians for partisan purposes, and damaging our economy with job-killing rules. Americans are bullied by the very institutions established to protect their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our nation’s bureaucrats are on an undemocratic power trip. But Sekulow has a plan to fight back. We can resist illegal abuse, we can reform a broken system, and we can restore American democracy. This book won’t just tell you how to win, it will show you real victories achieved by Sekulow and the American Center for Law and Justice. Unless we can roll back the fourth branch of govern­ment—the most dangerous branch—our elections will no longer matter. Undemocratic is a wake-up call, a call made at just the right time—before it’s too late to save the democracy we love.