Macropolitics and changes in the U.S. code: Testing competing theories of policy production, 1874-1946

The Macropolitics of Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 129-150

  Heitshusen, Valerie ^a   Young, Garry ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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