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- Title
Intended Consequences: Jurisdictional Reform and Issue Control In the U. S. House of Representatives.
- Authors
ADLER, E. SCOTT; WILKERSON, JOHN D.
- Abstract
The power of congressional committees rests in large part on their ability to set the legislative agenda in particular issue areas. But how do committees acquire their issue jurisdictions? Existing research points to informal committee turf wars—not collective reforms—as the roots of jurisdictional allocations (King 1994, 1997). Yet the House of Representatives has made nearly 150 formal changes to its commit- tees' jurisdictions since 1973. We investigated the effects of one prominent instance of extensive jurisdictional changes, the Boiling-Hansen reforms of 1975, and found~ that this body of reforms advanced collective goals of improved policy coordination, and enhanced information sharing.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUBLIC officers; JURISDICTION; PUBLIC welfare; LEGISLATIVE bodies; COMMITTEES of the United States House of Representative; UNITED States. Congress. House
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2008, Vol 33, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3162/036298008783743318