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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"legislative organization"”.
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Elections with incomplete information
… agency framework to study seniority norms in legislative organization. The model organizes many of the stylized facts about the U.S. Congress, including the incumbency advantage, the dynamics of effort allocation over a career, the importance of constituency service, and seniority norms in …
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Mistaking the Forest for the Trees: The Mistreatment of Group-level Treatments in the Study of American Politics
… contribute to important substantive debates over legislative organization by producing more cleanly identified effects of the power of Congressional representatives as individuals and as members of parties to bargain over distributive goods.
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The existence of preference outlier committees in the 1999-2008 Louisiana House of Representatives
… the heart of this debate lie three theories of legislative committee development: the distributive, informational, and major party cartel theory. Each of these theories attempts to explain legislative committee assignments through one single legislator motivation: legislator interest, party, or …
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Explaining the Strength of Legislative Committees: A Comparative Analysis
<p>By what means can legislative committees exercise influence on policy outputs? How and why do committees in different countries differ in their abilities to do so? This dissertation argues that legislative committee power is a multidimensional concept. Committee procedures can be distinguished …