Congress on display, Congress at work / edited by William T. Bianco.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bianco, William T., 1960-
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2000], ©2000.
Subjects:
United States. > Congress.
Physical Description:x, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface.
  • Richard Fenno's conventional wisdom / William T. Bianco.
  • Explaining institutional change : soaking, poking, and modeling in the U.S. Congress / John H. Aldrich and Kenneth A. Shepsle.
  • Building reputations and shaping careers : the strategies of individual agendas in the U.S. Senate / Wendy J. Schiller.
  • Majority party leadership, strategic choice, and committee power : appropriations in the House, 1995-98 / Bryan W. Marshall, Brandon C. Prins, and David W. Rohde.
  • What we don't know about Congressional Party leadership / Richard Forgette.
  • Preferences and governance in the U.S. House of Representatives : the Great Republican experiment / Christine DeGregorio.
  • Republican House Majority party leadership in the 104th and 105th Congresses : innovation and continuity / Barbara Sinclair.
  • Can advisory committees facilitate congressional oversight of the bureaucracy? / Steven J. Balla and John R. Wright.
  • Representation, careerism and term limits : a simulation / Linda L. Fowler and Brian Frederking.
  • Understanding presentation of self / William T. Bianco.
  • Member goals and party switching in the U.S. Congress / David Castle and Patrick J. Fett.
  • The distribution of pork barrel projects and vote buying in congress / Diana Evans.
  • Congress, the President, and the unrealized bargaining power of the line-item veto : a brief note on a short-lived law / Patrick J. Fett, Jeffrey S. Hill, and Richard Delaney.