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The Macropolitics of Congress.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of 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, 1874-19466. 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 CongressIndex.