The Political Economy of Expertise: Information and Efficiency in American National Politics

The Political Economy of Expertise is a carefully argued examination of how legislatures use expert research and testimony. Kevin Esterling demonstrates that interest groups can actually help the legislative process by encouraging Congress to assess research and implement well-informed policies. More than mere touts for the interests of Washington insiders, these groups encourage Congress to enact policies that are likely to succeed while avoiding those that have too great of a risk of failure. The surprising result is greater legislative efficiency. The Political Economy of Expertise illustrates that this system actually favors effective and informed decision making, thereby increasing the likelihood that new policies will benefit the American public. Kevin M. Esterling is Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside.

Business & Money

Esterling, Kevin M.

Economics

University of Michigan Press

This report describes the structure and operations of judicial performance evaluation programs in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. It concludes with recommendations for establishing an effective judicial retention evaluation program.

Judicial retention evaluation programs in four states: A report with recommendations

Sampson, Kathleen M.

State Justice Institute

This report sets out the challenges courts face in maintaining public confidence, and offers recommendations and examples for how state and federal courts can work together with their local communities to improve the public's view of the courts.

Judicial Independence, Public Confidence in Courts, and State-Federal Cooperation in the Midwest: A Research Report on the Midwest Regional Conference on State-Federal Judicial Relationships

Many citizens in the US and abroad fear that democratic institutions have become weak, and continue to weaken. Politics with the People develops the principles and practice of 'directly representative democracy' - a new way of connecting citizens and elected officials to improve representative government. Sitting members of Congress agreed to meet with groups of their constituents via online, deliberative town hall meetings to discuss some of the most important and controversial issues of the day. The results from these experiments reveal a model of how our democracy could work, where politicians consult with and inform citizens in substantive discussions, and where otherwise marginalized citizens participate and are empowered. Moving beyond our broken system of interest group politics and partisan bloodsport, directly representative reforms will help restore citizens' faith in the institutions of democratic self-government, precisely at a time when those institutions themselves feel dysfunctional and endangered.

Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology, Series Number 555)

Politics & Social Sciences

Neblo, Michael A.

Lazer, David M. J.

Politics & Government

Cambridge University Press

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