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Title: CONGRESS
STRUCTURE AND POLICY
By: Mathew D. McCubbins (Editor), Terry Sullivan (Editor), Randall Calvert
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 052133750X
ISBN 13: 9780521337502
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 28 August, 1987
Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
Pages: 576
Description: First published in 1987, Congress: Structure and Policy is a review of congressional research from an institutional perspective.
Synopsis: First published in 1987, Congress: Structure and Policy is a review of congressional research from an institutional perspective. The selections blend theoretical material found in the fields of discussion theory, political economy, social choice and game theory, with classics on such standard topics as elections and campaigning, controlling the bureaucracy and oversight, norms of behaviour, committees and committee assignments reform, budgeting, presidential influence, and the party and its leadership. Together, these readings present an institutional theory of Congress. They are integrated in order to address both the short-run issue of how congressional institutions shape policy and the long-run question of why congressional organization has evolved the way it has. In their introductions to the chapters, the editors, Professors McCubbins and Sullivan, not only address the themes of the individual readings but place the chapters in the larger context of the political economy.
Illustrations: illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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