Legislative Effectiveness In The United States Congress
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Legislative Effectiveness In The United States Congress
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Author : Craig Volden
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-27
Legislative Effectiveness In The United States Congress written by Craig Volden and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-27 with Political Science categories.
This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.
The Impression Of Influence
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Author : Justin Grimmer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-23
The Impression Of Influence written by Justin Grimmer and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-23 with Political Science categories.
Constituents often fail to hold their representatives accountable for federal spending decisions—even though those very choices have a pervasive influence on American life. Why does this happen? Breaking new ground in the study of representation, The Impression of Influence demonstrates how legislators skillfully inform constituents with strategic communication and how this facilitates or undermines accountability. Using a massive collection of Congressional texts and innovative experiments and methods, the book shows how legislators create an impression of influence through credit claiming messages. Anticipating constituents' reactions, legislators claim credit for programs that elicit a positive response, making constituents believe their legislator is effectively representing their district. This spurs legislators to create and defend projects popular with their constituents. Yet legislators claim credit for much more—they announce projects long before they begin, deceptively imply they deserve credit for expenditures they had little role in securing, and boast about minuscule projects. Unfortunately, legislators get away with seeking credit broadly because constituents evaluate the actions that are reported, rather than the size of the expenditures. The Impression of Influence raises critical questions about how citizens hold their political representatives accountable and when deception is allowable in a democracy.
Congress Overwhelmed
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Author : Timothy M. LaPira
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-12-21
Congress Overwhelmed written by Timothy M. LaPira and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-21 with Political Science categories.
Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: it doesn’t have the internal capacity to do what our constitutional system requires of it. Leading scholars chronicle the institutional decline of Congress and the decades-long neglect of its own internal investments in the knowledge and expertise necessary to perform as a first-rate legislature. Today’s legislators and congressional committees have fewer—and less expert and experienced—staff than the executive branch or K Street. This leaves them at the mercy of lobbyists and the administrative bureaucracy. The essays in Congress Overwhelmed assess Congress’s declining capacity and explore ways to upgrade it. Some provide broad historical scope. Others evaluate the current decay and investigate how Congress manages despite the obstacles. Collectively, they undertake the most comprehensive, sophisticated appraisal of congressional capacity to date, and they offer a new analytical frame for thinking about—and improving—our underperforming first branch of government.
Effective And Efficient Use Of Computers In Congress
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities Subcommittee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Effective And Efficient Use Of Computers In Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities Subcommittee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Budget categories.
Considers H.R. 404 and H.R. 5522, to introduce computers into congressional operations to accelerate, as much as possible, such activities as budget formulations.
The U S Congress A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Donald A. Ritchie
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-21
The U S Congress A Very Short Introduction written by Donald A. Ritchie and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-21 with Political Science categories.
In the second edition of The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. No mere civics lesson, this eye-opening book provides an insider's perspective on Congress, matched with a professional historian's analytical insight. After a swift survey of the creation of Congress by the constitutional convention, he begins to unscrew the nuts and pull out the bolts. What is it like to campaign for Congress? To attract large donors? To enter either house with no seniority? He answers these questions and more, explaining committee assignments and committee work, the role of staffers and lobbyists, floor proceedings, parliamentary rules, and coalition building. Ritchie explores the great effort put into constituent service-as representatives and senators respond to requests from groups and individuals-as well as media relations and news coverage. He also explores how the grand concepts we all know from civics class--checks and balances, advise and consent, congressional oversight--work in practice in an age of strong presidents and a muscular Senate minority.
Effective And Efficient Use Of Computers In Congress
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities Subcommittee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Effective And Efficient Use Of Computers In Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities Subcommittee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Computers categories.
Considers H.R. 404 and H.R. 5522, to introduce computers into congressional operations to accelerate, as much as possible, such activities as budget formulations.
Congressional Record
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1919
Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1919 with Law categories.
Congress Reconsidered
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Author : Lawrence C. Dodd
language : en
Publisher: CQ Press
Release Date : 2016-12-16
Congress Reconsidered written by Lawrence C. Dodd and has been published by CQ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-16 with Political Science categories.
For almost four decades, the editors of Congress Reconsidered, Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer have delivered the best contemporary work from leading congressional scholars in a form that is both analytical and accessible. The tradition continues in this Eleventh Edition as contributing authors focus on the many ways Congress has changed over time and examine the conditions that foster these developments. Some of the most noted names in congressional studies address topics from broad dynamics affecting the institution, elections and constituencies, parties and internal organization, inter-branch relations, and policymaking. This new edition also ends with a capstone chapter on the milestone 2016 elections. Simply put, this bestselling volume remains on the cutting edge of scholarship, identifying patterns of change in Congress and placing those patterns in context.
Congress Reconsidered
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Author : Lawrence C. Dodd
language : en
Publisher: CQ Press
Release Date : 2016-12-27
Congress Reconsidered written by Lawrence C. Dodd and has been published by CQ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-27 with Political Science categories.
For almost four decades, the editors of Congress Reconsidered, Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer have delivered the best contemporary work from leading congressional scholars in a form that is both analytical and accessible. The tradition continues in this Eleventh Edition as contributing authors focus on the many ways Congress has changed over time and examine the conditions that foster these developments. Some of the most noted names in congressional studies address topics from broad dynamics affecting the institution, elections and constituencies, parties and internal organization, inter-branch relations, and policymaking. This new edition also ends with a capstone chapter on the milestone 2016 elections. Simply put, this bestselling volume remains on the cutting edge of scholarship, identifying patterns of change in Congress and placing those patterns in context.
Effective And Efficient Use Of Computers In Congress
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Government Operations
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Effective And Efficient Use Of Computers In Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Government Operations and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.