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Paperback Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House Volume 23 Book

ISBN: 0520072200

ISBN13: 9780520072206

Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House Volume 23

(Part of the California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy Series)

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This book provides an incisive new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Reevaluating the role of parties and committees, Gary Cox and Mathew McCubbins view parties in the House--especially majority parties--as a species of "legislative cartel." These cartels usurp the power, theoretically resident in the House, to make rules governing the structure and process of legislation. Possession of this rule-making...

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On its way to being a classic

A significant chunk of the recent work on political parties in Congress begins with this book. Its going to be one of those classics that every political scientist eventually cites, and so its one that every political scientist shown probably own. The book review is a pretty good summary of the argument. The theory and the empirical studies are a bit loose, and the conclusions are overdrawn in places, but the idea is (was) sufficiently novel that it represents a serious innovation in contemporary thinking about political parties and congressional organization. Whatever you might think about the book's argument that parties are a legislative cartel, this theory is the foundation for what will surely become an enormous literature in political science.
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