Rethinking rules: Creativity and constraint in the U.S. house of representatives

Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 168-203

  Sheingate, Adam ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511806414.008     Document Type: Chapter

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