Government officials in favor of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 used a variety of methods to ensure its passage and entrenchment. The power of these strategies and tactics can be seen most clearly by viewing them through the analytical lens of political transaction-cost manipulation theory.
Passing the Affordable Care Act
Transaction Costs, Legerdemain, Acquisition of Control
By Charlotte Twight
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Other Independent Review articles by Charlotte Twight | ||
Winter 2015/16 | Through the Mist: American Liberty and Political Economy, 2065 | |
Fall 2015 | DoddFrank: Accretion of Power, Illusion of Reform | |
Spring 2008 | Sovereign Impunity | |
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