Congress as problem solver

Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 219-236

  Mayhew, David R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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2. John M. Carey, "Recorded Votes and Legislative Accountability in Latin America", paper prepared for the conference "Exporting Congress? The Influence of the U. S. Congress on World Legislatures", at the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, December 6-7, 2002.
3. Susan Milligan, "Back-Room Dealing a Capitol Trend", Boston Globe, October 3, 2004, pp. A1, A23-24.
4. Richard E. Cohen and others, "The State of Congress", National Journal, January 10, 2004, pp. 83-105.
5. Joel D. Aberbach, Keeping a Watchful Eye: The Politics of Congressional Oversight (Brookings, 1990), p. 38.
6. Glen S. Krutz, "Getting around Gridlock: The Effect of Omnibus Utilization on Legislative Productivity", Legislative Politics Quarterly, vol. 25(2000):533-49.
7. Jeremy Bentham, "Of Promulgation of the Laws and Promulgation of the Reasons Thereof", in The Works of Jeremy Bentham, edited by John Bowring (New York: Russell and Russell, 1962), 1:157-63.
8. Lewis G. Irwin, A Chill in the House: Actor Perspectives on Change and Continuity in the Pursuit of Legislative Success (State University of New York Press, 2002), p. 141.
9. Congress: The Electoral Connection (Yale University Press, 1974). (p. 180).
10. Richard F. Fenno Jr., Congressmen in Committees (New York: Little, Brown, 1973).
11. Nelson W. Polsby, How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 114-24.
12. Clem Miller, Member of the House: Letters of a Congressman (New York: Scribner, 1962).
13. Mayhew, Congress: The Electoral Connection.
14. Terry M. Moe and Scott A. Wilson, "Presidents and the Politics of Structure", Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 57(1994):26-27 (italics in original).
15. David R. Mayhew, Americas Congress: Actions in the Public Sphere, James Madison through Newt Gingrich (Yale University Press, 2000).
16. Julian E. Zelizer, Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
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18. Helen Fessenden, "Hill's Oversight Role at Risk", National Journal, March 27, 2004, pp. 734-37.
19. Gregory Wawro, Legislative Entrepreneurship in the U. S. House of Representatives (University of Michigan Press, 2000), pp. 158-60.
20. For the record through 2002, see http://pantheon.yale.edu/~dmayhew/ dataset-DWG04-roll-calls-1991-2002.xls.
21. David R. Mayhew, Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations, 1946-2002 (Yale University Press, 2005), p. 122.
22. Mayhew, Divided We Govern, pp. 130-31, 134-35.
23. Mayhew, Congress: the Electoral Connection, pp. 174-77.
24. Cohen and others, "The State of Congress", pp. 88-91.
25. Mayhew, Congress: The Electoral Connection, pp. 179-80.