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Author | : Kenneth A. Shepsle |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780472083190 |
A comparison of rational choice models of Congress
Author | : Eric Schickler |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 1444 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0191628263 |
No legislature in the world has a greater influence over its nation's public affairs than the US Congress. The Congress's centrality in the US system of government has placed research on Congress at the heart of scholarship on American politics. Generations of American government scholars working in a wide range of methodological traditions have focused their analysis on understanding Congress, both as a lawmaking and a representative institution. The purpose of this volume is to take stock of this impressive and diverse literature, identifying areas of accomplishment and promising directions for future work. The editors have commissioned 37 chapters by leading scholars in the field, each chapter critically engages the scholarship focusing on a particular aspect of congressional politics, including the institution's responsiveness to the American public, its procedures and capacities for policymaking, its internal procedures and development, relationships between the branches of government, and the scholarly methodologies for approaching these topics. The Handbook also includes chapters addressing timely questions, including partisan polarization, congressional war powers, and the supermajoritarian procedures of the contemporary Senate. Beyond simply bringing readers up to speed on the current state of research, the volume offers critical assessments of how each literature has progressed - or failed to progress - in recent decades. The chapters identify the major questions posed by each line of research and assess the degree to which the answers developed in the literature are persuasive. The goal is not simply to tell us where we have been as a field, but to set an agenda for research on Congress for the next decade. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III
Author | : Christopher J. Deering |
Publisher | : CQ Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1483300951 |
Providing a comprehensive examination of the origins, development, and status of committees and committee systems in both the House and Senate, this edition carries on the book's tradition of comprehensive coverage, empirical richness, and theoretical relevance in its discussion of these essential and distinguishing features of our national legislature. While the second edition focused on the "post-reform" committee systems, addressed the shifts in the internal distribution of power, and hinted at the forces that had already begun to undermine the power of committees, this edition updates that analysis and looks at the reforms that evolvied under the Republicans. It offers complete coverage of the rules and structural changes to the House and Senate committee systems. It extends its discussion of committee power and influence in the context of the "Contract with America," Republican reforms, and the inter-party warfare on Capitol Hill.
Author | : Keith Krehbiel |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1992-08-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780472064601 |
DIVPresents an alternative informational theory of legislative politics to challenge the conventional view /div
Author | : Shane Martin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 785 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199653011 |
Legislatures are arguably the most important political institution in modern democracies. The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by some of the most distinguished legislative scholars in political science, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description and critical assessment of the state of the art in this key area.
Author | : Jennifer Nicoll Victor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1011 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190228210 |
Politics is intuitively about relationships, but until recently the network perspective has not been a dominant part of the methodological paradigm that political scientists use to study politics. This volume is a foundational statement about networks in the study of politics.
Author | : Kalu N. Kalu |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2019-07-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1498587038 |
This book examines the notion that while states may differ in terms of ideology, economic system, and institutional architecture, their role as an organizing framework for system-wide political action and international relations is contingent on a series of competing and oftentimes mutually exclusive factors. This work clarifies factors that contribute to our understanding of the critical roles of systemic and sub-systemic elements of society and how they reinforce the reciprocal problems of human and social organizations, and the institutionalization processes that help to constrain them.
Author | : William J. Crotty |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780810109544 |
In this volume, the study of legislatures has traditionally been a central preoccupation of political scientists. Legislatures provide good laboratories for testing theories and methodologies of significance in the discipline and, more broadly, for contributing to an understanding of how representative government works.
Author | : Joseph Jupille |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2022-01-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1009063936 |
The human condition teems with institutions – intertemporal social arrangements that shape human relations in support of particular values – and the social scientific work developed over the last five decades aimed at understanding them is similarly vast and diverse. This book synthesizes scholarship from across the social sciences, with special focus on political science, sociology, economics, and organizational studies. Drawing out institutions' essentially social and temporal qualities and their varying relationships to efficiency and power, the authors identify more underlying similarity in understandings of institutional origins, maintenance, and change than emerges from overviews from within any given disciplinary tradition. Most importantly, Theories of Institutions identifies dozens of avenues for cross-fertilization, the pursuit of which can help keep this broad and inherently diverse field of study vibrant for future generations of scholars.
Author | : Adebola Rafiu BAKARE |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2023-07-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9819907802 |
This book evaluates the legislative effectiveness of Nigeria’s National Assembly under the Fourth Republic. The assessment covers five Assemblies (4th–8th) and focuses specifically on lawmaking, cost of running the National Assembly, and the budget making process. It empirically assesses the effectiveness of the Nigerian national legislature beyond previous emotional and sentimental evaluations of the institution. It has developed a model ‘Institutional Legislative Effectiveness Score’ used in assessing the institutional performance of the National Assembly from two perspectives: first, by comparing the performances of the two chambers in the same Assembly; and second, by comparing the performances of the institution across Assemblies. Aside lawmaking, the book also covers the major topical issues that characterized public evaluation of the institution. These include: size of the institution, budgeting process, cost of funding the institution, and the debate on the appropriate way in reforming the National Assembly.