The Context of Legislating: Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States

ISBN-13: 9781138599659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 136 str.

Shannon Jenkins

Opis

Jenkins provides a much-needed examination of how the rules, resources, and political conditions within and surrounding different institutions raise or lower the costs of legislating. Tracking data from 1,100 legislators, 230 committees and 12,000 bills introduced in ten state lower chambers, she examines how political conditions and institutional rules and resources shape the arc of the legislative process by raising the costs of some types of legislative activity and lowering the costs of others. The analysis reveals that institutional variables shape the legislative process on their own, but they also have important interactive effects that shape the behavior of actors in these chambers.

Recenzje

'Increasingly, American political scientists are recognizing the advantages of comparative study at the state level. Shannon Jenkins has produced a study that advances our knowledge of how the institutional and political context—the rules, structures and partisan arrangements—influence the making of law in our states. It is a welcome addition to the new research on state legislatures.' -Gary Moncrief, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Boise State University

O autorze

Shannon Jenkins is Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her research focuses on state and local politics, with a focus on decision‐making in state legislatures and state and local political parties.