This classic study of voting decisions in the U.S. House of Representatives, based on extensive interviewing and observation, combines theory and substance, generalization and detailed description. With a new introduction, this influential and innovative book remains the best statement of the ways in which legislators reach decisions. The work contributes in critical ways to scholars' and students' understanding of such larger features of legislative process as representation of constituencies, the place of specialization in the making of public policy, the extent and types of legislative rationality, the importance of principles in decisions, and the place of legislatures in larger political systems.
- ISBN10 0060436573
- ISBN13 9780060436575
- Publish Date 1 January 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 346
- Language English