Setting the agenda : responsible party government in the U.S. House of Representatives /
Scholars of the U.S. House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional organization serves members' non-partisan goals. On the other hand, partisan theories argue that the House is organ...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Procedural cartel theory
- Modeling agenda power
- The primacy of Reed's rules in House organization
- Final passage votes
- The costs of agenda control
- The textbook Congress and the Committee on Rules
- The bills reported from committee
- Which way does policy move?
- Positive agenda power
- Conclusion.