This comparative study of the law of lawmaking demonstrates the interplay between constitutional principles and political imperatives in four modern polities.
This comparative study of the law of lawmaking demonstrates the interplay between constitutional principles and political imperatives in four modern polities.
Susan Rose-Ackerman is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science) at Yale University, Connecticut. She has published widely on administrative law, corruption, federalism, and law and economics. She is the author of From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland (2005); Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform, 1999 (translated into seventeen languages; 2nd edition, with Bonnie Palifka, 2016); and Controlling Environmental Policy: The Limits of Public Law in Germany and the United States (1995). She is the editor of Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role? (with Paul Carrington, 2013); Comparative Administrative Law (with Peter Lindseth, 2010); and the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption (Volume I, 2006; Volume II, with Tina Søreide, 2011). Her current research and teaching interests are the comparative study of administrative law and public policy analysis, with a focus on the United States and Western Europe, and the political economy of corruption and its control. She directs the program in comparative administrative law at Yale Law School, and she holds a BA from Wellesley College, Massachusetts and a Ph.D. from Yale University.
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1. Political economy and constitutional law 2. The United States 3. South Africa 4. Germany 5. The European Union 6. Conclusions.
