The Substance of Representation (eBook)

Congress, American Political Development, and Lawmaking

John S. Lapinski (Autor)

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2013
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4863-8 (ISBN)

Infos

John S. Lapinski is associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and the deputy director of elections at NBC News. He is the coeditor of The Macropolitics of Congress (Princeton).

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Lawmaking is crucial to American democracy because it completely defines and regulates the public life of the nation. Yet despite its importance, political scientists spend very little time studying the direct impact that the politics surrounding a particular issue has on lawmaking. The Substance of Representation draws on a vast range of historical and empirical data to better understand how lawmaking works across different policy areas. Specifically, John Lapinski introduces a theoretically grounded method for parsing policy issues into categories, and he shows how policymaking varies in predictable ways based on the specific issue area being addressed. Lapinski examines the ways in which key factors that influence policymaking matter for certain types of policy issues, and he includes an exhaustive look at how elite political polarization shifts across these areas. He considers how Congress behaves according to the policy issue at hand, and how particular areas--such as war, sovereignty issues, and immigration reform--change legislative performance. Relying on records of all Congressional votes since Reconstruction and analyzing voting patterns across policy areas from the late nineteenth to late twentieth centuries, Lapinski provides a comprehensive historical perspective on lawmaking in order to shed light on current practices. Giving a clear picture of Congressional behavior in the policymaking process over time, The Substance of Representation provides insights into the critical role of American lawmaking.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.9.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 15 line illus. 30 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 95th Congress • activism • African Americans • Amendment • American democracy • American lawmaking • American Political Development • American Politics • bipartisanship • Brown v. Board of Education • Cabinet (government) • Career • Case study • Chae Chan Ping v. United States • Chinese Exclusion Act • Citizenship • Citizenship of the United States • civil liberties • Cloture • communism • Conference report • Congress • Congressional behaviour • congressional studies • Consideration • constitutional amendment • contemporary lawmaking • Covariate • deductive theory • Democracy • Democratic Party (United States) • Determinant • divided government • domestic policy • elite polarization • elite political polarization • Employment • Federal government of the United States • Filibuster in the United States Senate • freedom of speech • Governance • Government • House of Representatives • Ideology • Immigration Law • inference • Institution • International Relations • ira katznelson • Lawmaking • Legislation • legislative accomplishment • legislative behavior • Legislative history • legislative output • legislative productivity • Legislator • Legislature • Level of Analysis • Liberalism • Literacy test • Loving v. Virginia • Marshall Ganz • Martin Shefter • Measurement • Member of Congress • Minority Leader • national identity • nation state • New Federalism • normal science • Northern Democrats • Party line (politics) • path dependence • Periodization • policy classification schemas • policy-coding schema • policy issue area • policy issue substance • policymaking • policymaking process • policy substance • political agenda • political behavior • Political History • Political Philosophy • Political Polarization • political preferences • Political Science • political spectrum • Politics • politics of the united states • Populism • Princeton University Press • Provision (contracting) • public administration • Public Policy • pundit • Regime • Regulation • Representative Democracy • Robert C. Lieberman • roll call votes • roll call voting • Slavery • Social Science • Southern Democrats • Sovereignty • Statute • Studies in American Political Development • substance-oriented research • Suffrage • Theda Skocpol • Theodore Lowi • theory • Treaty • two-party system • United States Congress • United States congressional conference committee • United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary • U.S. Comgress • U.S. Congress • U.S. lawmakers • U.S. senators • Veto • Voting • Voting Behavior • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • war effort • welfare • Whigs (British political party) • white supremacy • World War I • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4863-6 / 1400848636
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4863-8 / 9781400848638