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Tales From the Sausage Factory : Making Laws in New York State

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Title: Tales From the Sausage Factory : Making Laws in New York State
Description: A former state legislator and a political scientist team up to show how New York's legislature was once the nation's model professional legislature, and how it might recover from its present dysfunction.'Laws are like sausages,'Otto von Bismarck is said to have remarked.'It is better not to see them being made.'Even among sausage factories, New York State's legislature is notoriously dysfunctional, but as Tales from the Sausage Factory reminds us, this was not always the case. Indeed, in the early 1980s, New York's legislature was a model of professionalism. Cowritten by former state legislator Daniel Feldman and political scientist Gerald Benjamin, Tales from the Sausage Factory offers an up-close look at how law and public policy are made in New York State. Drawing on Feldman's experiences as a member of the New York State Assembly from 1981 to 1998, the book focuses on four major battles over public safety policy in the 1980s and 1990s-organized crime control, the Rockefeller drug laws, sex offender notification, and gun control. Not afraid to name names along the way, Feldman and Benjamin show how politics works in New York State and how major public policy questions are decided (both in the legislature and the courts), as well as how New York's legislature might rise above its present dysfunction to recover the professionalism it once had. At a time when frustration with at state government is at an all-time high, Tales from the Sausage Factory is a much-needed reminder of what we can-and should-expect from our state legislators.
Authors: Daniel L. Feldman, Gerald Benjamin
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Subjects: New York (State). Legislature. Assembly--Biograp, Legislation--New York (State), Legislators--New York (State)--Biography
Categories: POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General
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