The macropolitics of Congress / edited by E. Scott Adler and John S. Lapinski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adler, E. Scott.

Lapinski, John S., 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

United States. Congress.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs? This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions by looking at what the authors refer to as legislative accomplishment. The book moves beyond current research on Congress that focuses primarily on rules, internal structure, and the microbehavior of individual lawmakers, to look at the mechanisms that govern how policy is enacted and implemented in the United States. It includes essays on topics ranging from those dealing with the microfoundations of congressional output, to large N empirical analyses that assess current theories of lawmaking, to policy-centered case studies. All of the chapters take a Congress-centered perspective on macropolicy while still appreciating the importance of other branches of government in explaining policy accomplishment. The Macropolitics of Congress shines light on promising pathways for the exploration of such key issues as the nature of political representation. It will make a significant contribution to the study of Congress and, more generally, to our understanding of American politics. Contributors include E. Scott Adler, David Brady, Charles M. Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Robert S. Erikson, Grace R. Freedman, Valerie Heitshusen, John D. Huber, Ira Katznelson, Keith Krehbiel, John S. Lapinski, David Leblang, Michael B. MacKuen, David R. Mayhew, Nolan McCarty, Charles R. Shipan, James A. Stimson, and Garry Young.

Contents:

Macropolitics and micromodels : cartels and pivots reconsidered / by Keith Krehbiel

Bureaucratic capacity and legislative performance / by John D. Huber and Nolan McCarty

Public opinion and congressional policy : a macro-level perspective / by Robert S. Erikson, Michael B. MacKuen, and James A. Stimson

The substance of representation : studying policy content and legislative behavior / by Ira Katznelson and John S. Lapinski

Macropolitics and changes in the U.S. code : testing competing theories of policy production, 1874-1946 / by Valerie Heitshusen and Garry Young

Does divided government increase the size of the legislative agenda? / by Charles R. Shipan

The macropolitics of telecommunications policy, 1899-1998 : lawmaking, policy windows, and agency control / by Grace R. Freedman and Charles M. Cameron

The influence of Congress and the courts over the bureaucracy : an analysis of wetlands policy / by Brandice Canes-Wrone

Legislative bargaining and the macroeconomy / by E. Scott Adler and David Leblang

Lawmaking and history / by David R. Mayhew

Rational choice, history, and the dynamics of Congress / by David Brady.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299051201

1299051200

9781400841202

1400841208

OCLC:

763156802