How presidential transitions impact public policy such as immigration.
Presidential Transitions, Administrative Agencies, and Rulemaking
This week, we look at how presidential transitions impact public policy such as immigration.
Provide a brief description of the immigration policy you selected. Then explain how a presidential transition affected at least one administrative agency and its rules related to the policy. In your explanation, be sure to include brief descriptions of specific rules that were altered, created, or withdrawn.
Please include an in-text Bluebook citation, if referencing cases, as well as a citation in the reference list.
Support your response using the Learning Resources and other scholarly resources. View the list of the types of resources below.
Required Resources
READINGS
Kerwin, C. M., & Furlong, S. R. (2010). Rulemaking: How government agencies write law and make policy (4th ed.). Washington, DC: CQ Press.
Chapter 1, “The Substance of Rules and the Reasons for Rulemaking” (pp. 33–36)
Chapter 2, “The Process of Rulemaking” (pp. 75–86)
Chapter 7, “Rulemaking: Theories and Reform Proposals” (pp. 276–280)
Batkins, S., & Brannon, I. (2013). No ‘midnight’ after this election. Regulation, 36(1), 4–6.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Bolton, A., Potter, R. A., & Thrower, S. (2015). Organizational capacity, regulatory review, and the limits of political control. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 32(2), 242–271. doi: 10.1093/jleo/ewv025
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Cook, B. J. (2015). Curing the mischiefs of faction in the American administrative state. The American Review of Public Administration, 46(1), 3–27. doi: 10.1177/0275074015612160
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West, W. F. (2015). The administrative presidency as reactive oversight: Implications for positive and normative theory. Public Administrative Review, 75(4), 523–533.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Optional Resources
Clark, R. C., Ochs, H. L., & Frazier, M. (2013). Representative bureaucracy: The politics of access to policy-making positions in the federal executive service. Public Personnel Management, 42(1), 75–89.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases
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