The Power to Propose
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Description
Since the appearance of Woodrow Wilson's Congressional Government more than a century ago, observers of the American Congress have been impressed with the importance of legislative committees. Writing in a period in which committees were not as central in the policy-making process as they were to become half a century later, Wilson argued that most important legislative activity took place in committees and that the parent chambers tended to ratify decisions taken in committee. Reflecting the centrality of committees in Congress, the revival of congressional studies over the past three decades was marked by a series of landmark committee studies as discussed by Richard Fenmo in The Power of the Purse (1966).
Source Publication
Models of Strategic Choice in Politics
Source Editors/Authors
Peter C. Ordeshook
Publication Date
1989
Recommended Citation
Baron, David P. and Ferejohn, John A., "The Power to Propose" (1989). Faculty Chapters. 515.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/515
