TY - BOOK ID - 77421544 TI - Setting the agenda AU - Cox, Gary W AU - McCubbins, Mathew D PY - 2005 SN - 0521619963 0521853796 9780521619967 9780521853798 9780511791123 9780511345326 0511345321 0511791127 1107154863 1281108634 9786611108632 0511344988 0511344627 0511344236 0511568398 9781107154865 9781281108630 6611108637 9780511344985 9780511344626 9780511344237 9780511568398 PB - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Political parties KW - #SBIB:324H43 KW - #SBIB:328H31 KW - Politieke structuren: politieke partijen KW - Instellingen en beleid: VSA / USA KW - United States. KW - U.S. House of Representatives KW - House of Representatives (U.S.) KW - Palata Predstaviteleĭ Kongressa SShA KW - Committees. KW - Rules and practice. KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77421544 AB - Scholars of the U.S. House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional organization serves members' non-partisan goals. On the other hand, partisan theories argue that the House is organized to serve the collective interests of the majority party. This book advances our partisan theory and presents a series of empirical tests of that theory's predictions (pitted against others). It considers why procedural cartels form, arguing that agenda power is naturally subject to cartelization in busy legislatures. It argues that the majority party has cartelized agenda power in the U.S. House since the adoption of Reed's rules in 1890. The evidence demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislative process in order to prevent bills that the party dislikes from reaching the floor. ER -