The Devil Is in the Details: Understanding the Causes of Policy Specificity and Ambiguity
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Seeks to explain the causes of ambiguously worded state legislation.
The level of detail in a given law can have dramatic consequences for how that law is interpreted and applied. In The Devil Is in the Details, Rachel VanSickle-Ward focuses on the dynamics of social policy construction in the United States in order to better understand why the wording of legislation can range from the specific to the ambiguous. When policies are high salience, the fissures produced by partisan discord, inte...























