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How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs? This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions by looking at what the authors ref...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adler, E. Scott (Contribuidor, Editor ), Brady, David (Contribuidor), Cameron, Charles M. (Contribuidor), Canes-Wrone, Brandice (Contribuidor), Erikson, Robert S. (Contribuidor), Freedman, Grace R. (Contribuidor), Heitshusen, Valerie (Contribuidor), Huber, John D. (Contribuidor), Katznelson, Ira (Contribuidor), Lapinski, John S. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Leblang, David (Contribuidor), MacKuen, Michael B. (Contribuidor), Mayhew, David R. (Contribuidor), McCarty, Nolan (Contribuidor), Shipan, Charles R. (Contribuidor), Stimson, James A. (Contribuidor), Young, Garry (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Edición:Core Textbook
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Defining the Macropolitics of Congress
  • PART I: Theoretical Approaches to the Macropolitics of Congress
  • 1 Macropolitics and Micromodels: Cartels and Pivots Reconsidered
  • 2 Bureaucratic Capacity and Legislative Performance
  • PART II: The Macropolitics of Representation
  • 3 Public Opinion and Congressional Policy: A Macro-Level Perspective
  • 4 The Substance of Representation: Studying Policy Content and Legislative Behavior
  • PART III: Testing Theories of Macropolitics across Time
  • 5 Macropolitics and Changes in the U.S. Code: Testing Competing Theories of Policy Production, 1874-1946
  • 6 Does Divided Government Increase the Size of the Legislative Agenda?
  • PART IV: Macropolitics and Public Policy
  • 7 The Macropolitics of Telecommunications Policy, 1899-1998: Lawmaking, Policy Windows, and Agency Control
  • 8 The Influence of Congress and the Courts over the Bureaucracy: An Analysis of Wetlands Policy
  • 9 Legislative Bargaining and the Macroeconomy
  • PART V: Understanding the Macropolitics of Congress
  • 10 Lawmaking and History
  • 11 Rational Choice, History, and the Dynamics of Congress
  • Index

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