{"product_id":"congress-structure-and-policy-paperback-9780521337502","title":"Congress; Structure and Policy (Paperback) 9780521337502","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCongress\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eStructure and Policy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst published in 1987, Congress: Structure and Policy is a review of congressional research from an institutional perspective.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatthew D. McCubbins (Edited by), Terry Sullivan (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521337502, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 28 August 1987\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e576 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.84 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFirst 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSeries editors' preface\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: institutional aspects of decision processes\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Representation: 1. The electoral connection and the Congress David R. Mayhew\u003cbr\u003e 2. The case of the vanishing marginals: the bureaucracy did it Morris P. Fiorina\u003cbr\u003e 3. Running scared: elections and congressional politics in the 1980s\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Shape of Congressional Institutions\u003cbr\u003e Section 1. The Development of Institutional Arrangements: 4. The institutionalization of the US House of Representatives Nelson W. Polsby\u003cbr\u003e 5. A rational choice perspective on congressional norms Barry R. Weingast\u003cbr\u003e Section 2. Committees: 6. Congressmen and committees: a comparative analysis Richard F. Fenno, Jr.\u003cbr\u003e 7. Democratic committee assignments in the House of Representatives: strategic aspects of a social choice process David W. Rohde and Kenneth A. Shepsle\u003cbr\u003e 8. Reforming the structure of the House appropriations process: the effects of the 1885 and 1919–20 reforms on money decisions David Brady and Mark A. Morgan\u003cbr\u003e Section 3. Parties: 9. The decline of party in the US House of Representatives, 1887–1968 David Brady, Joseph Cooper, and Patrica A. Hurley\u003cbr\u003e Section 4. Leadership: 10. Joseph G. Cannon and Howard W. Smith: an essay on the limits of leadership in the House of Representatives Charles O. Jones\u003cbr\u003e 11. Presidential leadership in Congress: securing commitments Terry Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Impact of Institutional Arrangements: Implications for the study of Congress: 12. Votes, strategies, and institutions: an introduction to the theory of collective choice Thomas Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e 13. Institutional arrangements and equilibrium in multidimensional voting models Kenneth A. Shepsle\u003cbr\u003e 14. Sophisticated committees and structure-induced equilibria in Congress Keith Krehbiel\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Impact of Institutional Arrangements on the Development of Public Policy: 15. A theory of congressional delegation Mathew D. McCubbins and Talbot Page\u003cbr\u003e 16. Congressional oversight overlooked: police patrols versus fire alarms Mathew D. McCubbins and Thomas Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e 17. The structure of agency decision processes John A. Ferejohn\u003cbr\u003e 18. The political foundations of regulatory policy Roger Noll\u003cbr\u003e 19. Congressional influence over policy making: the case of the FTC Randall L. Calvert, Mark J. Moran, and Barry R Weingast\u003cbr\u003e 20. Legislators, bureaucrats, and locational decisions R. Douglas Arnold\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political structure \u0026amp; processes [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structure \u0026amp; processes\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structure%20\u0026amp;%20processes%20%5BJPH%5D%22\"\u003eJPH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007102603544,"sku":"9780521337502","price":50.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521337502i_1d86d164-cc87-4d04-b287-11aa23cded0c.jpg?v=1691375297","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/congress-structure-and-policy-paperback-9780521337502","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}