The Context of Legislating Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States
Auteur : Jenkins Shannon
The Context of Legislating provides a much-needed examination of how the rules, resources, and political conditions within and surrounding different institutions raise or lower the costs of legislating. Using data tracking over 1,100 legislators, 230 committees and 12,000 bills introduced in ten state lower chambers, Shannon Jenkins examines how political conditions and institutional rules and resources shape the arc of the legislative process by raising the costs of some types of legislative activity and lowering the costs of others. Jenkinstraces these important contextual effects across the legislative process, examining bill introduction, committee processing and floor passage of bills in these legislatures. The analysis reveals that institutional variables shape the legislative process on their own, but they also have important interactive effects that shape the behavior of actors in these chambers. After tracing these effects across the legislative process, the book concludes by examining the practical implications of these analytical findings. How can the rules of institutions be designed to create effective legislatures? And what do these findings mean for those who seek to shape the policies produced by these institutions?
Understanding of how the context of legislating shapes the outputs of legislatures is a critical element of understanding legislatures that has been sorely missing. An original and timely resource for scholars and students researching state legislatures and state politics.
1. The Context of Legislating
2. Why Context Matters
3. Initiating Legislation
4. Committee Processing
5. What Happens Next
6. How Context Shapes the Legislative Process and Why It Matters
Shannon Jenkins is Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her research focuses on state and local politics, with a focus on decision‐making in state legislatures and state and local political parties.
Date de parution : 05-2018
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 05-2016
13.8x21.6 cm
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Mots-clés :
Relation Ship; American Politics; Term Limited States; Congress; Majority Party Members; Government; Legislative Professionalism; Legislation; Majority Party Status; Legislative Politics; Amendment Sponsorships; Legislative Studies; Lead Sponsors; Political Institutions; Multi-level Logistic Regression Model; State and Local Politics; Co-sponsorship Activity; Bills Introduced; Black Legislators; Co-sponsor Bills; Negatively Related; Majority Party Control; Sponsored Bills; State Level Variables; Vice Versa; Report Rates; Lower Report Rates; Bills Passed; Cost Benefit Calculus; Divided Government; Dummy Variable; Full Chamber; Committee Variables