Doing the Right Thing: Collective Action & Procedural Choice in New Legislative Process

by Lawrence Becker

Book Overview

Doing the Right Thing examines the use of extraordinary legislative procedures in four cases in the U.S. Congress to accomplish policy objectives that many political scientists would argue are impossible to achieve. It not only shows that Congress is capable of imposing parochial costs in favor of general benefits but it argues that Congress is able to do so in a variety of policy areas through the use of very different kinds of procedural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256112
• ISBN13: 9780814256114
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"