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Article: Economic policy and decision making at the intersection of domestic and international politics: the advocacy coalition framework and the National Economic Council.
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- Policy Studies Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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Research demonstrates that the roles of the U.S. president's National Economic Council (NEC) and the policymaking process through which both international and domestic economic factors must pass continues to be underplayed by policy scholars. This article will examine the functions and responsibilities of the NEC in the management and coordination of economic policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Along the way, the study hopes to provide tentative answers to the following question regarding the formulation of economic policy in an increasingly intermestic policymaking process: To what extent have economic policy issues played a consequential role in ...