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- Title
Casework as a Technique of U. S. Congressional Oversight of the Executive.
- Authors
Johannes, John R.
- Abstract
Based on questionnaire data from and interviews with over 250 former and current members of Congress, congressional personal office staffs in Washington and in home offices, and officials in department and agency legislative liaison offices, this paper explores the utility of "casework" for oversight. The theses are that: (1) constituency service is more valuable for congressional oversight than is generally recognized in the literature; (2) oversight via casework is nonsystematic and selective; (3) casework's utility for oversight is both made possible and constrained by "opportunity factors" (case loads and types; congressional staff adequacy, location, structure, procedure, and motivation; members' motivations; members' committee assignments and status; and agency motivations, staffing, and procedures); and (4) casework's greatest potential as a contributor to oversight may lie in its effect upon internal agency oversight.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LEGISLATIVE bodies; HOME offices; HOME businesses; HOME labor; UNITED States. Congress; CONSTITUTIONAL law; LEGISLATIVE power; LEGISLATION
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1979, Vol 4, Issue 3, p325
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/439579