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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Weakness of Parties | |
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| Committee Government | |
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| An Outline of the Book | |
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| The Autonomy and Distinctiveness of Committees | |
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| Self-Selection and the Subgovernment Thesis | |
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| Self Selection | |
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| Constituency Interests and Assignment Requests | |
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| Accommodation of Assignment Requests | |
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| Accommodation of Transfer Requests | |
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| The Routinization of the Assignment Process | |
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| What of Norms in the Assignment Process? | |
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| Whither Assignment Routines? The Republican Revolution | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Seniority System in Congress | |
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| Seniority in the Rayburn House: The Standard View | |
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| Reconsidering the Standard View | |
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| The Empirical Evidence | |
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| Interpreting the Evidence: Postwar Democratic Rule | |
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| Interpreting the Evidence: The Republican Revolution | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Subgovernments and the Representativeness of Committees | |
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| The Previous Literature | |
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| Data and Methodology | |
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| Results | |
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| The Representativeness Thesis | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A Theory of Organization | |
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| Institutions as Solutions to Collective Dilemmas | |
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| Collective Dilemmas | |
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| Central Authority: The Basics | |
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| Why Central Authority Is Sometimes Necessary | |
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| Multiperiod Considerations | |
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| Problems with Central Authority | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A Theory of Legislative Parties | |
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| The Reelection Goal | |
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| Reelection Maximizers and Electoral Inefficiencies | |
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| Party Leadership | |
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| Some Criticisms of Our Theory and Our Rejoinder | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Parties as Floor-Voting Coalitions | |
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| On the Decline of Party Voting in Congress | |
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| Party Voting: Trends Since 1980 | |
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| Party Voting: Trends from 1910 to the 1970s | |
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| Party Agendas and Party Leadership Votes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Parties as Procedural Coalitions: Committee Appointments | |
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| Party Loyalty and Committee Assignments | |
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| Assignments to Control Committees | |
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| Party Loyalty and Transfers to House Committees | |
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| Loyalty, the Republican Revolution, and the Great Purge of 1995 | |
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| Assignment Success of Freshmen | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Contingents and Parties | |
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| A Model of Partisan Selection | |
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| Which Committees' Contingents Will Be Representative? | |
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| Results | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Parties as Procedural Coalitions: The Scheduling Power | |
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| The Majority Party and the Legislative Agenda | |
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| The Speaker's Collective Scheduling Problem | |
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| Limits on the Scheduling Power | |
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| Committee Agendas and the Speaker | |
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| Intercommittee Logrolls | |
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| Coalitional Stability | |
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| Critiques and Rejoinders | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Controlling the Legislative Agenda | |
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| The Majority Party and the Committee System | |
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| The Consequences of Structural Power: The Legislative Agenda | |
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| The Consequences of Structural Power: Public Policy | |
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| Comments on the Postwar House | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Uncompensated Seniority Violations, Eightieth through Hundredth Congresses | |
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| A Model of the Speaker's Scheduling Preferences | |
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| Unchallengeable and Challengeable Vetoes | |
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| The Scheduling Power | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |