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Positive theories of congressional institutions / edited by Kenneth A. Shepsle and Barry R. Weingast.

Title
Positive theories of congressional institutions / edited by Kenneth A. Shepsle and Barry R. Weingast.
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Shepsle, Kenneth A.
  • Weingast, Barry R.
Description
xiii, 314 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • United States. Congress
  • United States. House
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Positive theories of congressional institutions / Kenneth A. Shepsle and Barry R. Weingast -- The gains from exchange hypothesis of legislative organization / Thomas W. Gilligan and Keith Krehbiel -- A sequential choice theory perspective on legislative organization / David P. Baron -- Bonding, structure, and the stability of political parties : party government in the House / Gary W. Cox and Matthew D. McCubbins -- Parties and committees in the House : member motivations, issues, and institutional arrangements / David W. Rohde -- Comparing committee and floor preferences / John Londregan and James M. Snyder, Jr. --
  • (cont.) A model of a legislature with two parties and a committee system / John H. Aldrich -- Who controls? : information and the structure of legislative decision making / Arthur Lupia and Matthew D. McCubbins -- House special rules and the institutional design controversy / Barbara Sinclair -- Principals, goals, dimensionality, and congressional committees / Forrest Maltzman and Steven S. Smith / Empiricism and progress in positive theories of legislative institutions / Richard L. Hall -- Afterword (but undoubtedly not the last word) / Morris P. Fiorina.
ISBN
  • 0472106848 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0472083198 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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