TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lapinski,John S.
TI  - The Substance of Representation: Congress, American Political Development, and Lawmaking 
T2  - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
SN  - 9780691137810
AV  - JK1021 .L37 2017
U1  - 328.73 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Legislation
KW  - United States
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 95th Congress
KW  - American democracy
KW  - American lawmaking
KW  - American political development
KW  - American politics
KW  - Congress
KW  - Congressional behaviour
KW  - House of Representatives
KW  - Theodore Lowi
KW  - U.S. Comgress
KW  - U.S. Congress
KW  - U.S. lawmakers
KW  - U.S. senators
KW  - congressional studies
KW  - contemporary lawmaking
KW  - deductive theory
KW  - elite polarization
KW  - elite political polarization
KW  - lawmaking
KW  - legislation
KW  - legislative accomplishment
KW  - legislative behavior
KW  - legislative output
KW  - legislative productivity
KW  - normal science
KW  - policy classification schemas
KW  - policy issue area
KW  - policy issue substance
KW  - policy substance
KW  - policy-coding schema
KW  - policymaking process
KW  - policymaking
KW  - political behavior
KW  - political polarization
KW  - political preferences
KW  - politics
KW  - roll call votes
KW  - roll call voting
KW  - substance-oriented research
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Chapter I. Policy Issue Substance and the Revitalization of Legislative Studies --; Chapter II. Bringing Policy Issue Substance Back In --; Chapter III. Political Polarization and Issues: A New Perspective --; Chapter IV. The Case Studies: Policy Issue Substance and the Political Behavior of Members of Congress (with David Bateman) --; Chapter V. Legislative Accomplishment and Policy Issue Substance --; Chapter VI. Explaining Lawmaking in the United States, 1877-1994 --; Chapter VII. At the Crossroads: Policy Issue Substance, Congress, and American Political Development --; Bibliography --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400848638?locatt=mode:legacy
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