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First 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Full title: Congress
• Subtitle: Structure and Policy
• Author: Matthew D. McCubbinsTerry Sullivan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576
• EAN: 9780521337502
• ISBN: 052133750X
• ID: 02027883
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 858 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 228 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. August 1987

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