Inside congressional committees : function and dysfunction in the legislative process / Maya L. Kornberg.

"Many academic studies of the last twenty years use large-N quantitative studies of roll-call voting and partisanship to make a case for why Congress is broken as a rule-making and functioning institution of governance. In Inside Congressional Committees: Function and Dysfunction in the Legislative...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kornberg, Maya, 1991- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
United States. > Congress > Committees.
Legislative hearings > United States.
United States. > Congress.
Committees.
Legislative hearings.
United States.
Physical Description:viii, 233 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Setting up a hearing
  • Who are the witnesses?
  • Witness typology
  • How Congress listens : the different hearing types
  • Committee hearings as educational platforms
  • Committee hearings as theatrical stages
  • Committees as spaces for personal connection
  • Neither dead nor ossified : Congress today
  • Appendix A. Details on interview sample
  • Appendix B. Desirability and partisanship rankings
  • Appendix C. Balance score data set by term.