Inside Congressional Committees : : Function and Dysfunction in the Legislative Process / / Maya Kornberg.
It is widely believed that Congress has broken down. Media accounts present the storied legislature as thoroughly gridlocked, paralyzed by partisan rancor. Political scientists find that Congress is passing fewer laws and spending less time on legislative work. Which parts of a supposedly dysfunctio...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 SETTING UP A HEARING
- 2 WHO ARE THE WITNESSES?
- 3 WITNESS TYPOLOGY
- 4 HOW CONGRESS LISTENS The Different Hearing Types
- 5 COMMITTEE HEARINGS AS EDUCATIONAL PLATFORMS
- 6 COMMITTEE HEARINGS AS THEATRICAL STAGES
- 7 COMMITTEES AS SPACES FOR PERSONAL CONNECTION
- 8 NEITHER DEAD NOR OSSIFIED Congress Today
- APPENDIX A. DETAILS ON INTERVIEW SAMPLE
- APPENDIX B. DESIRABILITY AND PARTISANSHIP RANKINGS
- APPENDIX C. BALANCE SCORE DATA SET BY TERM
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX