Handbook of Legislative ResearchThe Handbook of Legislative Research, a comprehensive summary of the results of research on nineteenth and twentieth-century legislatures, is itself a landmark in the evolution of legislative studies. Gathered here are surveys by leading scholars in the field, each providing inventory of an important subfield, an extensive bibliography, and a systematic assessment of what has been accomplished and what directions future research must take. |
Contents
Legislative Research | 1 |
PART THREE Legislative Processes | 9 |
Legislative Elections and Electoral Responsiveness | 57 |
Legislators and Constituents in | 97 |
Party and Factions Within Legislatures | 135 |
Committee Selection | 191 |
Legislative Staffs | 273 |
Voting Behavior in Legislatures | 471 |
LegislativeExecutive Relations | 519 |
Legislative Committees Executive Agencies | 573 |
Legislative Influence on Policy and Budgets | 621 |
Formal Models of Legislative Processes | 669 |
Historical Research on 19th Century Legislatures | 701 |
The Functions of Legislatures in the Third World | 733 |
Contributors | 773 |
Common terms and phrases
94th Congress activity American Enterprise Institute American Political Science analysis assignment process British Bullock candidates cleavages coalition committee assignments committee system Comparative Congressional Congressional Quarterly constituency decision Democratic district Duke University effect electoral Eulau executive factors Fenno finds fractions function goals Hinckley House of Commons House of Representatives hypothesis impact important incumbents individual influence institutional interest groups issues Journal of Political Kornberg lative leadership Legislative Behavior legislative elections legislative parties legislative staffing Legislative Studies Quarterly Legislative Systems legislatures literature Loewenberg major Malcolm E Nelson W norms organization organizational Ornstein oversight Parliament parliamentary parliamentary systems partisan party leaders party systems patterns Patterson percent perspective Political Science Review Polsby Public recruitment reelection Reform relationship representation role scholars Shepsle social staff structure subcommittee theory turnover two-party systems U.S. Congress U.S. House U.S. Senate variables voters voting Wahlke Washington York