The second edition of Legislative Leviathan provides an incisive new look at the inner
workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Re-evaluating the …

Scholars of the US House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the
legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional …

The political parties in Congress are as polarized as they have been in 100 years. This book
examines more than 30 years of congressional history to understand how it is that the …

WHY are legislatures organized as they are? If one could use a time machine to drive
steadily backward in the history of the world's longest-lived democratic assemblies, one …

El presente artículo busca indagar sobre la conducta que presentó la Cámara de Diputados,
respecto a los proyectos de ley que fueron enviados por el Ejecutivo en el periodo …

In the first comprehensive study of the subject in decades, political scholar Matthew Green
disputes the conventional belief that the minority party in the US House of Representatives is …

A fundamental tenet of partisan theories of legislative organization is that the majority party
is able to generate outcomes that deviate in their preferred direction from the chamber …

This book examines how the constitutional requirements of the lawmaking process,
combined with the factional divisions within parties, affect US representatives' decisions …

A difficult yet prevalent problem in legislative politics is how to assess explanations when
observable actions may not represent true (and unobserved) legislator preferences. We …

Students of legislative politics have struggled to explain and measure party influence on
voting and outcomes in Congress. Proponents of strong party effects point to the numerous …