Committees in Congress

Name: Committees in Congress
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ISBN: 9780871878182

ISBN-10: 0871878186

ISBN-13: 9780871878182

Edition: 3rd 1997

Authors: Christopher J. Deering, Steven S. Smith

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Book details

List price: $55.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: CQ Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Tables, Figures, and Boxes


Preface



Committees in Congress


Perspectives on Committee Power


Conditions Shaping the Role of Committees


Forms of Committee Power in Congress


Types of Committees


Sources of Committee Procedure and Structure


Variation and Change in the Committee Systems



Evolution and Change in Committees


Development of the Modern Committee Systems


Committee Government: 1947-1964


Reform: 1965-1980


Postreform Committees (1981-1995): Decentralization and Individualism


Republican Rule and the 104th Congress


Committees and Parties in Congress



Member Goals and Committee Assignments


The Importance of Committee Assignments


Member Goals in the House


Member Goals in the Senate


Jurisdictions, Agendas, and Environments


The Committee Assignment Process


The Distribution of Preferences



Inside Committees: Leaders, Subcommittees, and Staff


Committee Leaders


Subcommittees


Committee Staff


Patterns of Subcommittee Orientation


The Rise and Decline of Subcommittee Government



Committees in the Postreform Congress


Agenda and Partisan Change


Managing the Agenda


Committees on the Floor


Conference Committees


Perspectives on Committee Power Revisited


Index