PSCI 3325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Pork Barrel, Rulemaking, Federal Register
18 Oct 2016
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Congress designs a bill well enough that in such a way, it will appeal to a sufficient number of interests to create a winning coalition. It also can bring approval to bigger things that otherwise may not be accomplished without logrolling. Spreading of government expenditures is pork barrel legislation - concerns capital expenditures like infrastructure developments, capital projects. Also seen as a measure of the congress member"s success. The decision making required for regulations is not majoritarian. Decision making is more technical and less political, but political considerations are still acknowledged and cannot be disregarded. The attempt to apply cost-benefit analysis and other forms of economic analysis to regulations before they are adopted. People are given access to the regulatory process. Regulations require agencies accept advice and ideas from interested citizens as process goes forward. Hybrid rulemaking: compromise between the thoroughness of formal process and relative case of the informal process, does not require full scale judicial proceedings, cross-examine witnesses.
