The Logic of Congressional Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Logic of Congressional Action write by R. Douglas Arnold. This book was released on 1990-01-01. The Logic of Congressional Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Congress regularly enacts laws that benefit particular groups or localities while imposing costs on everyone else. Sometimes, however, Congress breaks free of such parochial concerns and enacts bills that serve the general public, not just special interest groups. In this important and original book, R. Douglas Arnold offers a theory that explains not only why special interests frequently triumph but also why the general public sometimes wins. By showing how legislative leaders build coalitions for both types of programs, he illuminates recent legislative decisions in such areas as economic, tax, and energy policy. Arnold's theory of policy making rests on a reinterpretation of the relationship between legislators' actions and their constituents' policy preferences. Most scholars explore the impact that citizens' existing policy preferences have on legislators' decisions. They ignore citizens who have no opinions because they assume that uninformed citizens cannot possibly affect legislators' choices. Arnold examines the influence of citizens' potential preferences, however, and argues that legislators also respond to these preferences in order to avoid future electoral problems. He shows how legislators estimate the political consequences of their voting decisions, taking into account both the existing preferences of attentive citizens and the potential preferences of inattentive citizens. He then analyzes how coalition leaders manipulate the legislative situation in order to make it attractive for legislators to support a general interest bill.
Logic of Congressional Action
Logic of Congressional Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Logic of Congressional Action write by R. Douglas Arnold. This book was released on 1992. Logic of Congressional Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
War Powers and the Logic of Congressional Action
War Powers and the Logic of Congressional Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War Powers and the Logic of Congressional Action write by Matthew Mark Simmons. This book was released on 1998-12-01. War Powers and the Logic of Congressional Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The war powers debate that has occupied so much public attention in the decades following Vietnam has typically portrayed the Congress and the president engaged in a continuous constitutional struggle over institutional prerogatives. Although the war powers literature presents many explanations of why Congress has not been able to effectively control presidential war making, most studies seem to take one thing for granted: that Congress is motivated by a desire to do so. The present study challenges this central assumption and introduces a new methodology to examine congressional behavior during consideration of the Multinational Force in Lebanon Resolution (1983) and the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (1991). Using Douglas Arnold's Logic of Congressional Action as a model, the researcher conducts a content analysis of congressional floor debate to determine if members of Congress are also motivated by electoral calculations when deciding matters of war and peace. The results indicate that in fact, members do seem to be motivated by electoral forces. Furthermore, the study reveals that content analysis can be a useful tool that holds the potential to make a significant contribution to both the war powers literature and to models of congressional action.
The Unconstitutionality of Congressional Action
The Unconstitutionality of Congressional Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unconstitutionality of Congressional Action write by Philip Christopher Friese. This book was released on 1867. The Unconstitutionality of Congressional Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability
Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability write by R. Douglas Arnold. This book was released on 2013-10-31. Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Douglas Arnold asks: do local newspapers provide the information citizens need in order to hold representatives accountable for their actions in office? In contrast with previous studies, which largely focused on the campaign period, he tests various hypotheses about the causes and consequences of media coverage by exploring coverage during an entire congressional session. Using three samples of local newspapers from across the country, Arnold analyzes all coverage over a two-year period--every news story, editorial, opinion column, letter, and list. First he investigates how twenty-five newspapers covered twenty-five local representatives; and next, how competing newspapers in six cities covered their corresponding legislators. Examination of an even larger sample, sixty-seven newspapers and 187 representatives, shows why some newspapers cover legislators more thoroughly than do other papers. Arnold then links the coverage data with a large public opinion survey to show that the volume of coverage affects citizens' awareness of representatives and challengers. The results show enormous variation in coverage. Some newspapers cover legislators frequently, thoroughly, and accessibly. Others--some of them famous for their national coverage--largely ignore local representatives. The analysis also confirms that only those incumbents or challengers in the most competitive races, and those who command huge sums of money, receive extensive coverage.
