Managing Uncertainty in the House of Representatives: Adaption and Innovation in Special Rules

by Steven S. Smith and Stanley Bach

Book Overview

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The ""postreform"" House of Representatives of the 1980's is strikingly different from the House of the 1970s. A most important change is the increasingly creative use of special rules, which structure floor debate on major legislation. The new trade of special rule craftsmanship now plays a pivotal role in managing the uncertainties of decisionmaking in the House. During the 1970s new issues and new members disrupted old ways of doing business,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081570741X
• ISBN13: 9780815707417
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"