Leadership in Committee: A Comparative Analysis of Leadership Behavior in the U.S. Senate

Evans, C. Lawrence

ISBN 10: 0472102370 / ISBN 13: 9780472102372

Verlag: University of Michigan Press, 1991

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Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor wear to edges, light spotting to page ends. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1511190020

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Titel: Leadership in Committee: A Comparative ...

Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1991

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

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Inhaltsangabe:

How does the leadership of a Senate committee influence the outcome of bills? In Leadership in Committee C. Lawrence Evans delves into the behavior of legislative leaders and the effects of what they do, how their tactics vary, and why. Using evidence gleaned from personal interviews with a large number of U.S. senators and Senate staff, the author compares the leadership styles of eight committee chairs and ranking minority members in the U.S. Senate. The result is a significant contribution to the literature on American politics, the first book-length, comparative analysis of legislative leadership behavior in the modern Senate.

". . . .this book is highly recommended reading for those interested in both legislative politics and political leadership. . . .Leadership in Committee establishes Evans as one of the handful of political scientists who have done justice to the subtleties of politics in the modern Senate."
---Randall Strahan, Journal of Politics

"Larry Evans has significantly influenced my own work over the years, and Leadership in Committee is one reason why. It is a model of great scholarship, the best work on committee leadership ever written. It has the discriminatory sense of context that appears only when the author truly knows his subject. It is theoretical without being reductionist or vacuously abstract. Its principal claims are general yet sufficiently concrete to be testable, and Evans provides systematic, comparative evidence to support (or qualify) each of them. Larger issues of agenda-setting, institutional structure, partisanship, anticipated reactions, participation, committee-floor bargaining, and strategic action of various kinds receive thoughtful and insightful examination. And the book is simply a terrific read. Too long in coming, the publication of Leadership in Committee in paperback ought to spark a well-deserved revival of interest in this work."
---Richard L. Hall, University of Michigan

Reseña del editor:

A study of Senate committees and leadership behavior