Defining Debates from the Outside Looking In
How Presidents Affect the Decisions of the House Rules Committee
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6183208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan D Rozzi, Alan Rozzi (Santa Clara University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 64-91 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Congress & the Presidency (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-3469 • E-ISSN: 1944-1053 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07343460903468640 |
| OpenAlex | W2067991123 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
In this study I demonstrate how presidents influence the decisions of the House Rules Committee. I show that, since the late 1980s, this rise in presidential influence has not been at the expense, but rather at the behest, of Speakers intent on instilling greater partisan order over the House. Speakers direct the Rules Committee to protect through restrictive rules those bills expressly supported by co-partisan presidents. Moreover, they do the same for bills opposed by presidents from the competing party. Statistical analysis of rules granted to almost 1,800 bills between 1977 and 2004 shows that these exogenous partisan factors perform more robustly than prevailing committee-based spatial models in the explanation of Rules Committee decisions in the postreform era. I conclude that scholars must continue to develop and refine formal and statistical models that explain the role and influence of partisanship not just within institutions, but also across them
Affect (linguistics · Economics · House of Representatives · Law and economics · Legislature · Lower house · Order (exchange · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Finance
Information and Legislative Organization
Why Parties?
Clarify
Divided we govern
Procedural Contexts, Party Strategy, and Conditional Party Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1971–2000
Party Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives
The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets
Unorthodox lawmaking
Procedural Choice and the House Committee on Rules
House Special Rules and the Institutional Design Controversy
Explaining the Role of Restrictive Rules in the Postreform House
The Politics of Blame
Making the Most of Statistical Analyses
Restrictive Rules Reconsidered
Sense and Sensibility
Rule Assignment in the Postreform House
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |