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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 January 2013
      14 January 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139150842
      9781107023185
      9781107670310
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139150842
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 259 Pages
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      (228 x 152 mm)
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      0.36kg, 262 Pages
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      Area Studies, Politics: General Interest, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations
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    How do issues end up on the agenda? Why do lawmakers routinely invest in program oversight and broad policy development? What considerations drive legislative policy change? For many, Congress is an institution consumed by partisan bickering and gridlock. Yet the institution's long history of addressing significant societal problems - even in recent years - seems to contradict this view. Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving argues that the willingness of many voters to hold elected officials accountable for societal conditions is central to appreciating why Congress responds to problems despite the many reasons mustered for why it cannot. The authors show that, across decades of policy making, problem-solving motivations explain why bipartisanship is a common pattern of congressional behavior and offer the best explanation for legislative issue attention and policy change.

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    'In the end, I hope and expect that Adler and Wilkerson’s challenging study will be widely read. A book that forces us to think hard about how we approach the study of Congress does not come along very often.'

    Paul J. Quirk Source: Congress and the Presidency

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