Barbara L. Sinclair

Unorthodox Lawmaking

New Legislative Processes in the U.S. Congress

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Produktbeschreibung

This fifth edition updates the book through to the end of the 113th Congress. Sinclair incorporates new examples and new case studies throughout, including the budget battles between President Obama and the House of Representatives and failed immigration reform bills.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• 5 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 229mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781506322834
• ISBN-10: 1506322832
• Artikelnr.: 45344081

Autorenporträt

Barbara Sinclair is Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics at the University of California at Los Angeles. She served as chair of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association from 1993 to 1995. She is the author of several books, including Legislators, Leaders, and Lawmaking: The U.S. House of Representatives in the Postreform Era, Transformation of the U.S. Senate, which won the Richard F. Fenno Prize and the D. B. Hardeman Prize, and Party Wars: Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Clean Air: An Introduction to How the Legislative Process Has
Changed
A Note on Data
Chapter 2: Multiple Paths: The Legislative Process in the House of
Representatives
Bill Introduction
Bill Referral
Postcommittee Adjustments
Suspension of the Rules
Special Rules
On the Floor
Unorthodox Lawmaking in the House
Chapter 3: Routes and Obstacles: The Legislative Process in the Senate
Bill Introduction
Bill Referral
Postcommittee Adjustments
Scheduling Legislation for the Floor
The Senate Floor
Unorthodox Lawmaking in the Senate
Chapter 4: Getting One Bill: Reconciling House-Senate Differences
Traditional Nonconference Reconciliation Procedures
Conference Committees
The President in the Postpassage Legislative Process
The Final Step
Reconciling Differences: How Much Change?
Chapter 5: Omnibus Legislation, the Budget Process, and Summits
Omnibus Legislation
Authorizations, Appropriations, and Earmarks
The Budget Process
Congress, the President, and Summitry
What Is the Regular Process?
Chapter 6: Why and How the Legislative Process Changed
From Decentralization to Individualism in the Senate
Reform and Its Legacy in the House
Budget Reform
A Hostile Political Climate as a Force for Innovation: The 1980s and Early
1990s
How Internal Reform and a Hostile Climate Spawned Unorthodox Lawmaking
Unorthodox Lawmaking in a Hyperpartisan Era
Chapter 7: Making Nonincremental Policy Change through Hyperunorthodox
Procedures: Health Care Reform in 2009-2010
The First Phase: Consultation and Drafting
Building Winning Coalitions to Pass Health Care: Postcommittee and Floor
Action
A Long and Convoluted End Game
Making Nonincremental Policy Change in a Partisan Era
Chapter 8: High-Stakes Budget Politics: The 2013 Government Shutdown and
the Ryan-Murray Deal
Act One: The FY2014 Budget Resolutions
Act Two: From Budget Resolution to the Ryan-Murray Deal
Unorthodox Budget Politics
Chapter 9: A Cross-Party Coalition Forces Policy Change: The USA Freedom
Act
House Action in the 114th Congress
Senate Action in the 114th Congress
Unorthodox Lawmaking and Forms of Bipartisanship
Chapter 10: The Consequences of Unorthodox Lawmaking
Lawmaking in the Contemporary Congress
Unorthodox Lawmaking and Legislative Outcomes
Other Costs and Benefits
Assessing Unorthodox Lawmaking