Money and Banks in the American Political System by Professor Kathryn C. Lavelle

By Professor Kathryn C. Lavelle

In funds and Banks within the American Political approach, debates over monetary politics are woven into the political cloth of the nation and modern conceptions of the yank dream. the writer argues that the political assets of instability in finance derive from the nexus among marketplace innovation and regulatory arbitrage. This booklet explores financial, monetary, and regulatory regulations inside a political tradition characterised by way of the separation of commercial and kingdom, and distrust of the focus of energy in anyone political or monetary establishment. The bureaucratic preparations one of the branches of presidency, the Federal Reserve, government enterprises, and executive backed organizations incentivize firms to compete for budgets, assets, governing authority, and team of workers.

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The result of studies of institutions is that public bureaucracies make only marginal changes in existing policy in any given round. Change is incremental because bureaucrats rarely consider a problem in its entirety. They usually just consider a slice of the whole. 32 the main actors in the american government surrounding finance To take a comprehensive view of the American government surrounding finance, and thus to detail what contributes to episodes of instability, this section offers a picture of both the division of power among branches of government in the United States, as well as a view of the bureaucracy that has evolved over the years to implement public policy with its assortment of agencies, independent regulatory commissions, single-headed regulatory agencies, and hybrid entities such as the Federal Home Loan Banking system and government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

These associations have broadly based memberships on behalf of the business community overall. Staff members in their 49 50 51 Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971). ” Newsweek, December 14, 2009, 50. This typology is drawn from Lehne. See Richard Lehne, Government and Business: American Political Economy in Comparative Perspective (New York: Chatham House, 2001), 139. 22 Money and Banks in the American Political System headquarters monitor events in Congress and the executive branch and develop positions on issues affecting their members.

Because congressional districts in 61 Kenneth D. S. ” (Washington, DC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 2006). The Institutional Foundations of Financial Politics in the United States 27 the House of Representatives are geographic, that distribution of small and medium-sized banks means that many more congressional districts have these institutions as constituents than the large banks that are concentrated in New York, California, and North Carolina. As legislation moves through Congress and regulations are produced in agencies, all banks do not necessarily share the same interests, depending on where they are located and how many assets they control.

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