A Comparison of Post-9/11 Emergency Legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States
ResearchPosted on rand.org 2013Published in: Evaluation and Turbulent Times: Reflections on a Discipline in Disarray (Comparative Policy Evaluation, Vol. 20) / Jan-Eric Furubo, Ray C. Rist, Sandra Speer, eds.(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2013), Chapter 9, p. 161-177
This chapter aims to look at how evaluation is or is not accommodated within emergency policy making, whether it allows for explicit ex post evaluation and monitoring of the policy introduced. Both the UK and US introduced review clauses in the post-9/11 emergency legislation, to act as an oversight system and allow for emergency legislation. These case studies showed how the review clauses were used and the effect on policy making.
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