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Unbroken Government This page intentionally left blank Unbroken Government Success and the Illusion of Failure in Policymaking Wendy N.WhitmanCobb unbrokengovernment Copyright©WendyN.WhitmanCobb,2013. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-33918-8 Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2013by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,EuropeandtherestoftheWorld, thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-46435-7 ISBN 978-1-137-35252-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137352521 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailablefromthe LibraryofCongress. AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:August2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Forthosewhohaveinspiredme:Mom,Dad, Josh,andmyintellectualinspiration,LarryDodd. This page intentionally left blank Contents TablesandFigures ix Preface xi 1 InstitutionsandPolicy 1 2 TheInstitutional-PolicyCycle 23 3 HumanSpaceflightandCleanAirPolicy 43 4 ATaleofTwoChambers 61 5 ExecutivesandPolicy 85 6 BureaucraticInfluenceandDiscretion 111 7 SomethingOld,SomethingNew,SomethingFederal 135 8 APathForward 155 Notes 173 References 175 Index 183 This page intentionally left blank Tables and Figures Tables 6.1 Humanspaceflightbureaucraticdiscretionregression results 124 7.1 Highwayinfrastructurebureaucraticdiscretionregression results 150 Figures 3.1 NewYorkTimesarticlesoncleanairbyinstitution, 1960–2010 55 3.2 NewYorkTimesarticlesonhumanspaceflightby institution,1960–2010 58 4.1 Cleanairhearingspersessionbychamber 69 4.2 Cleanairhearingspercongressionalsessionbytopic 70 4.3 Humanspaceflighthearingspersessionbychamber 72 4.4 Humanspaceflighthearingspersessionbytopic 73 4.5 CleanairGAOreportsbyrequestingchamber 75 4.6 CleanairGAOreportsbytopic 76 4.7 HumanspaceflightGAOreportsbyrequestingchamber 77 4.8 HumanspaceflightGAOreportsbytopic 78 5.1 Cleanair’spresenceinthepublicpapersofthepresident 92 5.2 Humanspaceflight’spresenceinthepublicpapersofthe president 95 7.1 Homelandsecuritycongressionalhearings,2001–2012 139 7.2 Elementaryandsecondaryeducationpresidential statements 141

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