Asymmetric Information and Legislative Rules with a Heterogeneous
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas W Gilligan, Keith Krehbiel |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 459 |
| Publication date | 1989-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2111156 |
| OpenAlex | W2335175875 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 146 |
Business · Economics · Law and economics · Legislature · Political science · Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection · Computer Science · Game Theory and Voting Systems · Law · Legal Language and Interpretation
Unorthodox Lawmaking and the Value of Committee Assignments
The Reach of Political Economy
Resolving Controversy in the European Union
Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving
Setting the Agenda
Competitive lobbying for a legislator's vote
Parliamentary committee factors and performance of public accounts committee
Information disclosure with many alternatives
A Theory of Policy Expertise
Does Informative Opposition Influence Electoral Accountability
Legislative Organization and Political Representation
Big 4 Office Political Connections and Client Restatements
Communication and Binary Decisions
Consensus Building
On Judicial Review in a Separation of Powers System
The committee outlier debate
Technocratic or democratic interest representation? How different types of information affect lobbying success
Trading control
Why are some parliamentarians’ bills more likely to progress? Sponsorship as a signal
Trawling for subsidies
Out of the Past
The Deinstitutionalization (?) of the House of Representatives
Organizing Staff in the U.S. Senate
Expertise, turnover and refreshment within the committees of the European Parliament
Information and political institutions
Delegation, capture and endogenous information structures
The role of oversight committees in closed rule legislation
An informational rationale for committee gatekeeping power
Looking for a smoking gun
Exclusive Committee Assignments and Party Pressure in the U.S. House of Representatives
Human capital, committee power and legislative outcomes
Arthur Lupia and Mathew D. McCubbins, The democratic dilemma
Elections with Privately Informed Parties and Voters
Budgetary Devices for Curbing Spending Prone Ministers and Bureaucrats
Learning and signalling by advisor selection
Committee jurisdiction, congressional behavior and policy outcomes
Lobbying when the decisionmaker can acquire independent information
The Politics of the U.S. Federal Judiciary's Requests for Institutional Reform
The Chief Justice as Effective Administrative Leader
Recent Work in Game Theory and Coalition Theory
Issue Specialization and Effective Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress
Strategic Transmission of Correlated Information
A Model of Public Consultation
Institutions, information asymmetry and democratic responsiveness
Democracy in parliament vs. democracy through parliament? Defining the rules of the game in the European Parliament
Parliamentary committees in european democracies
Achieving Consensus Through Committees
The policy impact of leadership in committees
Rapporteurship Allocation in the European Parliament
The Rationale behind Committee Assignment in the European Parliament
Uncertainty and political elites’ behavior
Testing Committee Composition Hypotheses for the U.S. Congress
Policy-Development Monopolies
Retesting Committee Composition Hypotheses for the U.S. Congress
Why Information? Choosing Committee Informativeness in U.S. State Legislatures
Why conference committees? A theory of conference use in structuring bicameral agreement
Urgency Petitions and the Informational Problem in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
Project selection with biased advice
Explaining Reforms of Parliamentary Minority Rights
Local Logrolling? Assessing the Impact of Legislative Districting in Los Angeles
Procedural Choice and the House Committee on Rules
Patronage, the Pendleton Act, and the Power of the People
Rules of Method and Rules of Conduct
Delegation and Positive-Sum Bureaucracies
Intercameral Bargaining and Intracameral Organization in Legislatures
Self-Enforcing Partisan Procedures
Comparing Floor-Dominated and Party-Dominated Explanations of Policy Change in the House of Representatives
The House Discharge Procedure and Majoritarian Politics
Cabinets, Committees, and Careers
A Jamming Theory of Politics
Committee Theories and Committee Votes
State Legislative Committees and Economic Connections
Amicus Coalition Heterogeneity and Signaling Credibility in Supreme Court Agenda Setting
Divided government, delegation, and civil service reform
The Effects of Measurement and Methods Decisions on Committee Preference Outlier Results
The Position-taking Value of Bill Sponsorship in Congress
Jurisdiction, Institutional Structure, and Committee Representativeness
The Role of Media Distrust in Partisan Voting
Polarization and Ideology
Performance of an Institutionalized Legislature
The “Israel Lobby” and American Politics
Power behind the Scenes
Personal Ambitions, Expertise and Parties’ Control
A Lab Experiment on Committee Hearings
Geographic Representation in Party‐Dominated Legislatures
How Responsive Are Legislators to Policy Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in a State Legislature
Knowledge, Expertise, and Committee Power in the Contemporary Congress
Uncertainty and the Prevalence of Committee Outliers
Chamber Size Effects on the Collaborative Structure of Legislatures
The Cost of Majority‐Party Bias
Informative Committees and Legislative Performance in the American States
On the buyability of voting bodies
Learning from others
Committee Assignments in a Nascent Party System
The Messenger Game
Committee Gatekeeping and Proposal Power under Single and Multiple Referral
Informational loss in bundled bargaining
Why does the majority party bother to have minority party members on committees
The role of procedural commitment in informational theories of legislative organization
Contemporary Theory of Institutions in Perspective
| Unique citing works | 146 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,95 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 146 |