Congressional Committees

The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Evans, C Lawrence ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Committee; Congress; Congressional committees; Congressional scholarship; Rational choice modeling

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EID: 85066532440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199559947.003.0018     Document Type: Chapter

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