Congress

Structure and Policy
Herausgeber: Calvert, Randall; Sullivan, Terry; McCubbins, Mathew D.

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1987, Congress: Structure and Policy is a review of congressional research from an institutional perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 923g
• ISBN-13: 9780521337502
• ISBN-10: 052133750X
• Artikelnr.: 26933103

Inhaltsangabe

Series editors' preface; Preface; Introduction: institutional aspects of
decision processes; Part I. Representation: 1. The electoral connection and
the Congress David R. Mayhew; 2. The case of the vanishing marginals: the
bureaucracy did it Morris P. Fiorina; 3. Running scared: elections and
congressional politics in the 1980s; Part II. The Shape of Congressional
Institutions; Section 1. The Development of Institutional Arrangements: 4.
The institutionalization of the US House of Representatives Nelson W.
Polsby; 5. A rational choice perspective on congressional norms Barry R.
Weingast; Section 2. Committees: 6. Congressmen and committees: a
comparative analysis Richard F. Fenno, Jr.; 7. Democratic committee
assignments in the House of Representatives: strategic aspects of a social
choice process David W. Rohde and Kenneth A. Shepsle; 8. Reforming the
structure of the House appropriations process: the effects of the 1885 and
1919-20 reforms on money decisions David Brady and Mark A. Morgan; Section
3. Parties: 9. The decline of party in the US House of Representatives,
1887-1968 David Brady, Joseph Cooper, and Patrica A. Hurley; Section 4.
Leadership: 10. Joseph G. Cannon and Howard W. Smith: an essay on the
limits of leadership in the House of Representatives Charles O. Jones; 11.
Presidential leadership in Congress: securing commitments Terry Sullivan;
Part III. The Impact of Institutional Arrangements: Implications for the
study of Congress: 12. Votes, strategies, and institutions: an introduction
to the theory of collective choice Thomas Schwartz; 13. Institutional
arrangements and equilibrium in multidimensional voting models Kenneth A.
Shepsle; 14. Sophisticated committees and structure-induced equilibria in
Congress Keith Krehbiel; Part IV. The Impact of Institutional Arrangements
on the Development of Public Policy: 15. A theory of congressional
delegation Mathew D. McCubbins and Talbot Page; 16. Congressional oversight
overlooked: police patrols versus fire alarms Mathew D. McCubbins and
Thomas Schwartz; 17. The structure of agency decision processes John A.
Ferejohn; 18. The political foundations of regulatory policy Roger Noll;
19. Congressional influence over policy making: the case of the FTC Randall
L. Calvert, Mark J. Moran, and Barry R Weingast; 20. Legislators,
bureaucrats, and locational decisions R. Douglas Arnold; Index.