The Logic of Delegation

by Mathew D. McCubbins and D. Roderick Kiewiet

Book Overview

Why do majority congressional parties seem unable to act as an effective policy-making force? They routinely delegate their power to others--internally to standing committees and subcommittees within each chamber, externally to the president and to the bureaucracy. Conventional wisdom in political science insists that such delegation leads inevitably to abdication--usually by degrees, sometimes precipitously, but always completely.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226435296
• ISBN13: 9780226435299
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"