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Article: Resource-based strategies in law and Positive Political Theory: cost-benefit analysis and the like.
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- University of Pennsylvania Law Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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INTRODUCTION
In addition to the good that often inures to the public from the use of cost-benefit analysis and other like instruments by policymakers, a more insidious nature to these decision-making instruments exists--that nature is the ideological, often partisan, control of public policy. The political control exercised through cost-benefit analysis and similar strategy-laden instruments allows one or more policymakers to force a competing policymaker to expend valuable, and limited, resources. Indeed, the imposition of these instruments by a controlling political coalition can compromise greatly, or even prevent, policies desired by a competing policymaking ...