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Shaping the Fifth Branch : = Interest Representation, Campaign Contributions, and Political Support Across the Federal Advisory Committee System, 1997-2011.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Shaping the Fifth Branch :/
Reminder of title:	Interest Representation, Campaign Contributions, and Political Support Across the Federal Advisory Committee System, 1997-2011.
Author:	Cloran, Andrew Thomas.
Description:	1 online resource (146 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-02A(E).
Subject:	Public policy. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355353204

Shaping the Fifth Branch : = Interest Representation, Campaign Contributions, and Political Support Across the Federal Advisory Committee System, 1997-2011.
Cloran, Andrew Thomas.

Shaping the Fifth Branch :Interest Representation, Campaign Contributions, and Political Support Across the Federal Advisory Committee System, 1997-2011. - 1 online resource (146 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

Federal advisory committees (FACs) consist of mostly unelected officials who examine complex policy issues and provide recommendations for action in a final report to one or more branches of government and federal administrative agencies. The proliferation of membership on FACs in recent decades, coupled with their subtle access to policy decision makers on a vast array of government activities, raises many significant questions: Who sits on these committees? Where are they coming from? Why were some FAC nominees chosen to be formal members and not others? To the extent that FACs provide official structures where voices are heard and can influence the direction of policy discussions, a closer inspection of the representativeness of interests on these boards appears as both relevant and necessary for scholarly attention. Moreover, FACs provide a prime candidate to advance interest group research wherein multiple theoretical perspectives can be explored across various federal policy issues. Overall, I find substantial variation in FAC representational patterns, wherein some commission compositions are indicative of pluralism, others are dominated by smaller subsets of elite interests, and still others keep to token forms of representation for all or portions of their respective membership types. Some agencies show remarkable consistency in the distribution of sector representation across years, while others show dramatic shifts in the proportion of representatives from certain sectors. Interests from the business sector, in particular, drive the policy-recommendation commissions for many of the agencies directly responsible for their regulation. In addition, I find that the President is more likely to appoint business-sector representatives into committee environments which allow these actors to form majority representation on highly specific policy areas. Finally, I find that increased levels of Presidential participation in the FAC member selection process translates to substantially increased odds in favor for Presidential, public recognition of the FAC.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355353204Subjects--Topical Terms:

1002398
Public policy.
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554714
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