The macropolitics of Congress / edited by E. Scott Adler and John S. Lapinski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Macropolitics and micromodels : cartels and pivots reconsidered / by Keith Krehbiel -- Bureaucratic capacity and legislative performance / by John D. Huber and Nolan McCarty -- Public opinion and congressional policy : a macro-level perspective / by Robert S. Erikson, Michael B. MacKuen, and James A. Stimson -- The substance of representation : studying policy content and legislative behavior / by Ira Katznelson and John S. Lapinski -- Macropolitics and changes in the U.S. code : testing competing theories of policy production, 1874-1946 / by Valerie Heitshusen and Garry Young -- Does divided government increase the size of the legislative agenda? / by Charles R. Shipan -- The macropolitics of telecommunications policy, 1899-1998 : lawmaking, policy windows, and agency control / by Grace R. Freedman and Charles M. Cameron -- The influence of Congress and the courts over the bureaucracy : an analysis of wetlands policy / by Brandice Canes-Wrone -- Legislative bargaining and the macroeconomy / by E. Scott Adler and David Leblang -- Lawmaking and history / by David R. Mayhew -- Rational choice, history, and the dynamics of Congress / by David Brady.

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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 i.

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