The Macropolitics of Congress / / ed. by John S. Lapinski, E. Scott Adler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adler, E. Scott,; Brady, David,; Cameron, Charles M.,; Canes-Wrone, Brandice,; Erikson, Robert S.,; Freedman, Grace R.,; Heitshusen, Valerie,; Huber, John D.,; Katznelson, Ira,; Lapinski, John S.,; Leblang, David,; MacKuen, Michael B.,; Mayhew, David R.,; McCarty, Nolan,; Shipan, Charles R.,; Stimson, James A.,; Young, Garry,
• HerausgeberIn: Adler, E. Scott,; Lapinski, John S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Core Textbook
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 21 line illus. 19 tables.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction. Defining the Macropolitics of Congress --; PART I: Theoretical Approaches to the Macropolitics of Congress --; 1 Macropolitics and Micromodels: Cartels and Pivots Reconsidered --; 2 Bureaucratic Capacity and Legislative Performance --; PART II: The Macropolitics of Representation --; 3 Public Opinion and Congressional Policy: A Macro-Level Perspective --; 4 The Substance of Representation: Studying Policy Content and Legislative Behavior --; PART III: Testing Theories of Macropolitics across Time --; 5 Macropolitics and Changes in the U.S. Code: Testing Competing Theories of Policy Production, 1874-1946 --; 6 Does Divided Government Increase the Size of the Legislative Agenda? --; PART IV: Macropolitics and Public Policy --; 7 The Macropolitics of Telecommunications Policy, 1899-1998: Lawmaking, Policy Windows, and Agency Control --; 8 The Influence of Congress and the Courts over the Bureaucracy: An Analysis of Wetlands Policy --; 9 Legislative Bargaining and the Macroeconomy --; PART V: Understanding the Macropolitics of Congress --; 10 Lawmaking and History --; 11 Rational Choice, History, and the Dynamics of Congress --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400841202; 9783110442502
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400841202
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by John S. Lapinski, E. Scott Adler.

How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs? This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions by looking at what the authors refer to as legislative accomplishment. The book moves beyond current research on Congress that focuses primarily on rules, internal structure, and the microbehavior of individual lawmakers, to look at the mechanisms that govern how policy is enacted and implemented in the United States. It includes essays on topics ranging from those dealing with the microfoundations of congressional output, to large N empirical analyses that assess current theories of lawmaking, to policy-centered case studies. All of the chapters take a Congress-centered perspective on macropolicy while still appreciating the importance of other branches of government in explaining policy accomplishment. The Macropolitics of Congress shines light on promising pathways for the exploration of such key issues as the nature of political representation. It will make a significant contribution to the study of Congress and, more generally, to our understanding of American politics. Contributors include E. Scott Adler, David Brady, Charles M. Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Robert S. Erikson, Grace R. Freedman, Valerie Heitshusen, John D. Huber, Ira Katznelson, Keith Krehbiel, John S. Lapinski, David Leblang, Michael B. MacKuen, David R. Mayhew, Nolan McCarty, Charles R. Shipan, James A. Stimson, and Garry Young.