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Law, Policymaking, and the Policy Process: Closing the Gaps
Author(s) -
Barclay Scott,
Birkland Thomas
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1998.tb01896.x
Subject(s) - closing (real estate) , political science , public policy , process (computing) , law and economics , ask price , public administration , policy studies , public law , law , economics , computer science , operating system , economy
Public policy scholars and public Law scholars often study the same substantive issues and have similar theoretical interests Yet students of the public policy process rarely consider the courts as policymakers in the same manner as do their public law counterpart We seek to explain this difference in approaches between the two Subfield on the question of the courts as policymakers, and we ask. how models of the public policy process should incorporate the judiciary.