Setting the agenda : responsible party government in the U.S. House of Representatives /
Scholars of the U.S. House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional organization serves members' non-partisan goals. On the other hand, partisan theories argue that the House is organ...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (MCPHS users only) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005
|
| Subjects: | |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Scholars of the U.S. House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional organization serves members' non-partisan goals. On the other hand, partisan theories argue that the House is organized to serve the collective interests of the majority party. This book advances our partisan theory and presents a series of empirical tests of that theory's predictions (pitted against others). It considers why procedural cartels form, arguing that agenda power is naturally subject to cartelization in busy legislatures. It argues that the majority party has cartelized agenda power in the U.S. House since the adoption of Reed's rules in 1890. The evidence demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislative process in order to prevent bills that the party dislikes from reaching the floor. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511345326 0511345321 9780511791123 0511791127 1107154863 9781107154865 1281108634 9781281108630 9786611108632 6611108637 0511344988 9780511344985 0511344627 9780511344626 0511344236 9780511344237 0511568398 9780511568398 0521853796 9780521853798 0521619963 9780521619967 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
