Bridging the information gap
Subtitle: legislative member organizations as social networks in the United States and the European Union
By: Nils Ringe and Jennifer Nicoll Victor ; with Christopher J. Carman
Contributors: Victor, Jennifer Nicoll
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780472118809; 9780472029211
Subjects: Legislative bodies; Legislators; Social networks; Public administration; Social aspects; Political sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bridging the information gap: the social and political power of legislative member organizations; title: Solutions to informational collective action dilemmas: theorizing the benefits of legislative member organizations; title: Where in the world are LMOs?; title: Building the case: legislative member organizations in the European Parliament and the U.S. Congress; title: Networking the legislators; title: There's no such thing as too much information (in legislative politics); title: Conclusion: how LMOs do and do not matter; title: Appendix A. Survey questions; title: Appendix B. Exponential random graph models.