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- Title
Policy Effects of U.S. House Reform: Decentralization and the Capacity To Resolve Energy Issues.
- Authors
Oppenheimer, Bruce I.
- Abstract
This study examines the effects of internal reforms of the 1970s on the capacity of the U.S. House of Representatives to make policy. House efforts to write major energy legislation in the 94th and 95th Congresses provide the vehicle for this analysis. Receiving particular attention is how decentralization of decision-making processes in the House has had markedly different effects on its capacity for policy mobilization than was found by Price (1972) in his Senate study. Through the use of participant observation and elite interviewing as well as an examination of the public record, the author describes the impact of reforms on the efforts of the House to resolve the key energy issues, analyzes the efforts of the House party leadership to cope with the consequences of reform, and finds that the reforms of the 1970s have created new avenues for legislative obstruction that differ in kind from those of the 1950s and 1960s but have much the same effect.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States legislators; LEGISLATIVE reform; PUBLIC administration; PUBLIC officers; LEGISLATIVE bills; POLITICAL participation; POLITICAL science; LEGISLATION
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1980, Vol 5, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/439439