Property Rights and the Emergence of Standing Committee Dominance in the Nineteenth-Century House

Legislative Studies Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 493-519

  Jenkins, Jeffery A ^a  

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EID: 0010144486     PISSN: 03629805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/440237     Document Type: Article

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