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The Context of Legislating - Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States (Hardcover)
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The Context of Legislating - Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States (Hardcover)
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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. Jenkins traces 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.
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