Book chapter
The Missing Rules Changes
Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew, p.139
University of Michigan Press
05/06/2010
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.14912.10
Abstract
The cases covered in the previous two chapters appeared from the existing (admittedly skimpy) historical literature to be the major rules changes taking place in the partisan-era House (see, e.g., Galloway 1969). Of course, had these Congresses seen exceptionally large majorities, the theory would hardly have seemed very compelling. However reassuring these results might be, they may be less informative than we would otherwise think. Inferences from a set of cases such as those just considered is critically dependent on the way in which those cases are selected. The approach taken here, a critic might argue, amounts to “selecting on
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Missing Rules Changes
- Creators
- Douglas Dion
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew, p.139
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- DOI
- 10.3998/mpub.14912.10
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/06/2010
- Academic Unit
- Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983982715702771
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