Legislating in the dark
Subtitle: information and power in the House of Representatives
By: James M. Curry
Series: Chicago studies in American politics; Chicago studies in American politics
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780226281681; 9780226281711
Subjects: United States; United States. Congress. House; Legislative bodies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Information and power in the House; title: Flows of information in the House; title: Turning out the lights: restricting information; title: Leadership-driven partisanship; title: Two cases of leadership; title: Trust and the limits to leadership; title: Representation in the dark; title: Appendix A: notes on the qualitative methods; title: Appendix B: notes on the quantitative methods.