Committees in Congress / Christopher J. Deering and Steven S. Smith.
1997
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Title
Committees in Congress / Christopher J. Deering and Steven S. Smith.
Published
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [1997]
Copyright
©1997
Call Number
JK1029 .S64 1997
Edition
Third edition.
ISBN
0871878186
Description
xvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)36430587
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in
Added Author
Table of Contents
Tables, Figures, and Boxes
Preface
Ch. 1
Committees in Congress
1
Perspectives on Committee Power
2
Conditions Shaping the Role of Committees
5
Forms of Committee Power in Congress
6
Types of Committees
11
Sources of Committee Procedure and Structure
18
Variation and Change in the Committee Systems
20
Ch. 2
Evolution and Change in Committees
25
Development of the Modern Committee Systems
26
Committee Government: 1947-1964
30
Reform: 1965-1980
33
Postreform Committees (1981-1995): Decentralization and Individualism
42
Republican Rule and the 104th Congress
47
Committees and Parties in Congress
52
Ch. 3
Member Goals and Committee Assignments
58
The Importance of Committee Assignments
60
Member Goals in the House
63
Member Goals in the Senate
78
Jurisdictions, Agendas, and Environments
86
The Committee Assignment Process
96
The Distribution of Preferences
108
Ch. 4
Inside Committees: Leaders, Subcommittees, and Staff
124
Committee Leaders
125
Subcommittees
150
Committee Staff
162
Patterns of Subcommittee Orientation
168
The Rise and Decline of Subcommittee Government
171
Ch. 5
Committees in the Postreform Congress
183
Agenda and Partisan Change
183
Managing the Agenda
185
Committees on the Floor
202
Conference Committees
215
Perspectives on Committee Power Revisited
225
Index
237