Congress Structure and Policy

Name: Congress Structure and Policy
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ISBN: 9780521337502

ISBN-10: 052133750X

ISBN-13: 9780521337502

Edition: 1987

Authors: Mathew D. McCubbins, Terry Sullivan

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Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/28/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Series editors' preface


Preface


Introduction: institutional aspects of decision processes



Representation



The electoral connection and the Congress




The case of the vanishing marginals: the bureaucracy did it




Running scared: elections and congressional politics in the 1980s



The Shape of Congressional Institutions



The Development of Institutional Arrangements



The institutionalization of the US House of Representatives




A rational choice perspective on congressional norms




Committees



Congressmen and committees: a comparative analysis




Democratic committee assignments in the House of Representatives: strategic aspects of a social choice process




Reforming the structure of the House appropriations process: the effects of the 1885 and 1919-20 reforms on money decisions




Parties



The decline of party in the US House of Representatives, 1887-1968




Leadership



Joseph G. Cannon and Howard W. Smith: an essay on the limits of leadership in the House of Representatives




Presidential leadership in Congress: securing commitments




The Impact of Institutional Arrangements: Implications for the study of Congress



Votes, strategies, and institutions: an introduction to the theory of collective choice




Institutional arrangements and equilibrium in multidimensional voting models




Sophisticated committees and structure-induced equilibria in Congress




The Impact of Institutional Arrangements on the Development of Public Policy



A theory of congressional delegation Mathew D. McCubbins and Talbot Page



Congressional oversight overlooked: police patrols versus fire alarms




The structure of agency decision processes




The political foundations of regulatory policy




Congressional influence over policy making: the case of the FTC




Legislators, bureaucrats, and locational decisions



Index