The Macropolitics of CongressE. Scott Adler, John S. Lapinski How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs? |
Contents
Macropolitics and Micromodels Cartels and Pivots Reconsidered | 21 |
Bureaucratic Capacity and Legislative Performance | 50 |
The Macropolitics of Representation | 77 |
Public Opinion and Congressional Policy A MacroLevel Perspective | 79 |
The Substance of Representation Studying Policy Content and Legislative Behavior | 96 |
Testing Theories of Macropolitics across Time | 127 |
Macropolitics and Changes in the US Code Testing Competing Theories of Policy Production 18741946 | 129 |
Does Divided Government Increase the Size of the Legislative Agenda? | 151 |
The Macropolitics of Telecommunications Policy 18991998 Lawmaking Policy Windows and Agency Control | 173 |
The Influence of Congress and the Courts over the Bureaucracy An Analysis of Wetlands Policy | 195 |
Legislative Bargaining and the Macroeconomy | 211 |
Understanding the Macropolitics of Congress | 239 |
Lawmaking and History | 241 |
Rational Choice History and the Dynamics of Congress | 251 |
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Macropolitics and Public Policy | 171 |