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...
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Acknowledgments
Preface
Prologue The State Senate Scandal of 2009
1. Getting the Job and Starting It: Politics, Ethics, Values
2. What Counts When Legislator...
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Daniel L. Feldman is Associate Professor of Public Management at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, and was previously Special C...