Gary W. Cox, Mathew D. McCubbins

Broschiertes Buch

Setting the Agenda

Responsible Party Government in the U.S. House of Representatives

Beschreibung

Demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislative process.

Autor

Gary W. Cox is a professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego. In addition to numerous articles in the areas of legislative and electoral politics, he is author of The Efficient Secret (winner of the Samuel H. Beer dissertation prize in 1983), coauthor of Legislative Leviathan (winner of the Richard F. Fenno Prize in 1993), and author of Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems (1997), which was awarded APSA's awards for the best book in political science (Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award), the best book in comparative politics (Gregory Luebbert Prize), and for the best book in political economy. His latest book, Elbridge Gerry's Salamander, analyzes the political consequences of the reapportionment revolution in the United States. Cox is a former Guggenheim Fellow and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780521619967
• ISBN-10: 0521619963
• Artikelnr.: 21413732