Craig The Collaborative Congress

Reaching Common Ground in a Polarized House
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-33830-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

The Collaborative Congress is an in-depth study of how members work together to create policy in a polarized legislature. While the modern Congress is characterized by partisanship and conflict, members frequently look for opportunities to find common ground on substantive policy. This book challenges the conventional narrative of a hopelessly dysfunctional legislature by revealing the widespread use of collaboration for successful policymaking. Drawing on a new dataset of communication between members, social network analysis, and qualitative interviews, chapters demonstrate that nearly every member engages in collaboration across a broad array of issues. The book identifies the strategic and political considerations that influence a member's decision to collaborate and shows that collaborative legislation is more successful at every stage of the policymaking process. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craig, Alison W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Collaboration in congress (Yes, it Exists!); 2. Social exchange in congress; 3. Identifying policy collaboration; 4. The breadth and substance of collaborative issues; 5. The most (and least collaborative members of Congress; 6. The interdependence of collaborative relationships; 7. Legislative benefits of collaboration; 8. The future of collaboration.

Über Autor(innen)

Craig, Alison W.
Alison W. Craig is Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas. She received the Carl Albert prize for the best dissertation in legislative studies and has testified before Congress on improving civility and collaboration among members. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the American Journal of Political Science and Legislative Studies Quarterly.