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- Title
Collective Decisionmaking and Standing Committees: An Informational Rationale for Restrictive Amendment Procedures.
- Authors
Gilligan, Thomas W.; Krehbiel, Keith
- Abstract
Discusses the effects of restrictive procedures of amending the committee proposals on the informational role of the committees in the U.S House. Development of restrictive procedures in the U.S. House in the last several decades of the 19th century; Introduction of a model of collective decision-making with standing committees in which actors are uncertain about the relationship between policies and their consequences; Properties of the model for unrestrictive amendment procedures.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COMMITTEES of the United States House of Representative; DECISION making
- Publication
Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 1987, Vol 3, Issue 2, p287
- ISSN
8756-6222
- Publication type
Article