This book applies the Allisonian framework to the response of the United States government to a private arms control initiative undertaken in 1986 by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization.

Philip G. Schrag is the Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest Law and Director of the Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown University Law Center.

Introduction -- The Mystery Propounded -- Model I: The Rational, National Government -- Model II: Laws and Procedures -- Model III: The Human Element -- The Mystery "Explained" -- The NRDC Project: A Postscript