The Context of Legislating: Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States

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Shannon Jenkins

The Context of Legislating

Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States

Shannon Jenkins

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Routledge
03 May 2016

Regional government

The Context of Legislating provides a much-needed examination of how the rules, resources, and political conditions within and surrounding different institutions raise or lower the costs of legislating. Using data tracking over 1,100 legislators, 230 committees and 12,000 bills introduced in ten state lower chambers, Shannon Jenkins examines how political conditions and institutional rules and resources shape the arc of the legislative process by raising the costs of some types of legislative activity and lowering the costs of others. Jenkins traces these important contextual effects across the legislative process, examining bill introduction, committee processing and floor passage of bills in these legislatures. The analysis reveals that institutional variables shape the legislative process on their own, but they also have important interactive effects that shape the behavior of actors in these chambers. After tracing these effects across the legislative process, the book concludes by examining the practical implications of these analytical findings. How can the rules of institutions be designed to create effective legislatures? And what do these findings mean for those who seek to shape the policies produced by these institutions?

Understanding of how the context of legislating shapes the outputs of legislatures is a critical element of understanding legislatures that has been sorely missing. An original and timely resource for scholars and students researching state legislatures and state politics.

By: Shannon Jenkins
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 650g
ISBN: 9781138684423
ISBN 10: 1138684422
Pages: 146
Publication Date: 03 May 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shannon Jenkins is Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her research focuses on state and local politics, with a focus on decision‐making in state legislatures and state and local political parties.

Reviews for The Context of Legislating: Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States

'Increasingly, American political scientists are recognizing the advantages of comparative study at the state level. Shannon Jenkins has produced a study that advances our knowledge of how the institutional and political context—the rules, structures and partisan arrangements—influence the making of law in our states. It is a welcome addition to the new research on state legislatures.' -Gary Moncrief, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Boise State University