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- Title
Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions.
- Authors
Shepsle, Kenneth A.; Weingast, Barry R.
- Abstract
This paper surveys the range of formal theories that have been developed in recent years to accommodate and explain various legislative practices. The newer theories, especially those emphasizing informational aspects of decision making and partisan features of legislative politics, constitute departures from an earlier tradition of modeling gains from exchange. The authors suggest how these newer developments blend with their forebears and yet still constitute critical departures. These approaches, it is argued, may be distinguished from one another by the weight each places on the demand side and supply side of legislative decision making.
- Subjects
LEGISLATIVE bodies; POLITICAL participation; DECISION making; PARTISANSHIP; THEORY; PRACTICAL politics; POLITICAL customs &; rites; SURVEYS; POLITICAL psychology
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1994, Vol 19, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/440423