Landmarks in Thestudy Ofcongress Since1945
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232976 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nelson W Polsby (University of California, Berkeley), Eric Schickler (0000-0002-2781-2987, University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 333-367 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.polisci.5.011002.115655 |
| OpenAlex | W2120148716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 140 |
This paper traces the course of inquiry on the U.S. Congress from 1945 to the present day, noting antecedents in the work of Woodrow Wilson, and through Wilson, of Walter Bagehot. Since 1945, the study of Congress has gone through an anglophile responsible-party phase, championed especially by William Yandell Elliott at Harvard, followed by a sociologically oriented legislative-behavior phase, identified in one generation with Lewis Anthony Dexter, Stephen K. Bailey, David Truman, and especially Ralph K. Huitt at Wisconsin, and in the next generation with Richard Fenno, Charles O. Jones, Donald R. Matthews, and H. Douglas Price, among others. A third, contemporary intellectual orientation is identified most strongly with rational choice scholars, especially from the University of Rochester. The agenda of political science is formed not only by the literature but by events. Hence, the congressional reforms of the 1970s were influential in shaping the literature, as were such organizational innovations as the Congressional Fellowship Program and the Study of Congress, both projects of the American Political Science Association
Economic history · Law and economics · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Science Research and Education
Issue Politics in Congress
Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism
Origen y desarrollo de los estudios legislativos
Rapporteurship Allocation in the European Parliament
Parties and Partisanship
Connecting the Congress
The Growth of American Political Development
At the Crossroads
Foundations of Legislative Organization and Committee Influence
Roots of reform
Party and constituency
Gaining access
New perspectives on the House of Representatives.
The decline and resurgence of Congress
The theory of political coalitions.
Congress, keystone of the Washington establishment
The Congressman's Civil War
Parties and Leaders in the Postreform House
Congressional Government
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900
Congressmen's Voting Decisions
Competing Principals
Information and Legislative Organization
Critical Elections and Congressional Policy Making
Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew
Congress Oversees the Bureaucracy
Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U.S. House of Representatives
Minority Rights, Majority Rule
Placing Parties in American Politics
Party Loyalty Among Congressmen
Turf Wars
Political Institutions
Congressional Influence on Bureaucracy
Linear Probability Models of the Demand for Attributes with an Empirical Application to Estimating the Preferences of Legislators
Intransitivities in multidimensional voting models and some implications for agenda control
Consciousness and Society
Confessions of a Congressman, by Jerry Voorhis
Pivotal Politics
Congress and Foreign Policy
Congress as Public Enemy
An American Dilemma
Politics and Power
The Contributions of President Richard F. Fenno, Jr
Foreign Policy and Party Politics
A Twentieth-Century Congress
The President's Cabinet
Why so much stability
Structure-induced equilibrium and legislative choice
The Congressional Party
Congress
Congress Makes a Law
Congress
The U. S. Senators and Their World
On Capitol Hill
Congress, The Electoral Connection
Professional Staffs of Congress
Bureaucracy in a Democracy
The Making of a Senator
Conflict and Compromise
Disjointed Pluralism
Clean Air
Unelected Representatives
Congress and the Bureaucracy
Joseph G. Cannon and Howard W. Smith
Party Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1890-1910
The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets
Bureaucratic Discretion or Congressional Control? Regulatory Policymaking by the Federal Trade Commission
The Congress and America's Future
Congress and Foreign Policy
The House of Representatives and Foreign Affairs
Congress and the Bureaucracy
Committee Reform in the House of Representatives and the Subcommittee Bill of Rights
State Party Delegations in the U.S. House of Representatives--A Comparative Study of Group Cohesion
The Decline of Party in the U. S. House of Representatives, 1887-1968
Adaptation and Consolidation
Heterogeneous Parties and Political Organization
The Growth of the Seniority System in the U. S. House of Representatives
The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives
Examining the Bonding Effects of Party
The New Centralization on Capitol Hill
Procedural Choice and the House Committee on Rules
The Functions of Informal Groups in Legislative Institutions
The Rise of Seniority in the House of Representatives
Remaking the House and Senate
House Special Rules and the Institutional Design Controversy
Bill Introduction in the Nineteenth Century
An Assessment of the Positive Theory of 'Congressional Dominance
Suspension of the Rules, the Order of Business, and the Development of Congressional Procedure
Party Discipline and Measures of Partisanship
Demand-Side Theory and Congressional Committee Composition
Organization of Informative Committees by a Rational Legislature
Patterns of Congressional Voting
Institutional Arrangements and Equilibrium in Multidimensional Voting Models
Congress and America's Political Development
Estimating Party Influence in Congressional Roll-Call Voting
The Politics of Speaker Cannon's Committee Assignments
To Enact a Law
Congressional Oversight Overlooked
Restrictive Rules Reconsidered
Seniority 1975
Congressional Reform and Party Discipline
Where's the Party
Woodrow Wilson's Congressional Government and the Modern Congress
Ousting the Oligarchs
The Social Background of Political Decision-Makers
Sectionalism and American Political Development 1880-1980
Institutional Change in the House of Representatives, 1867-1998
Institutional Context and Leadership Style
The Morse Committee Assignment Controversy
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2024 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |