Turf Wars : How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction - David C. King

Instant online reading.
Don't wait for delivery!
Go digital and save!

Turf Wars

How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction

By: David C. King

Write A Review

Hardcover | 2 September 1997 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Hardcover
222 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
2.36 x 1.59 x 0.19

Hardcover

$263.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $66.00 with

Ships in 5 to 10 business days

For most bills in American legislatures, the issue of turf--or which committee has jurisdiction over a bill--can make all the difference. Turf governs the flow and fate of all legislation. In this innovative study, David C. King explains how jurisdictional areas for committees are created and changed in Congress.
Political scientists have long maintained that jurisdictions are relatively static, changing only at times of dramatic reforms. Not so, says King. Combining quantitative evidence with interviews and case studies, he shows how on-going turf wars make jurisdictions fluid.
According to King, jurisdictional change stems both from legislators seeking electoral advantage and from nonpartisan House parliamentarians referring ambiguous bills to committees with the expertise to handle the issues. King brilliantly dissects the politics of turf grabbing and at the same time shows how parliamentarians have become institutional guardians of the legislative process.
Original and insightful, "Turf Wars" will be valuable to those interested in congressional studies and American politics more generally.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $79.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

You Can Find This Book In

Non-Fiction Politics & Government Central Government Political Structure & Processes Constitution & The Government & The State

Figures
Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Turf Wars on Capitol Hill
The Nature of Committee Jurisdictions
What Happens When Jurisdictions Are Reformed?
Parliamentarians as Institutional Guardians
Essential Strategies for Staking Claims
Flying Trains and Turf Wars
Governing Through Fragmented Committees
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

Turf Wars

How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction

At a Glance

Hardcover

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Politics & Government

The Right Hand

Conversations with the chiefs of staff to the world's most powerful people

Discovering Hitler's Fuhrerbunker

Secrets Beneath Berlin

Red Dawn Over China

How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

Where It All Went Wrong

The case against John Howard

The Menzies Legacy

Ideals, change, procession, 1960s and beyond

Defending the Defenceless

Indigenous Self-Determination and Legal Services in Australia

Careless People

A story of where I used to work

The Dark Side of the Earth

How the Soviet Union Collapsed but Remained

Furious Minds

The Making of the MAGA New Right

Is a River Alive?

Unfortunately, She Was A Nymphomaniac

A New History of Rome's Imperial Women

All or Nothing

How Trump Recaptured America

The Fourth Turning

An American Prophecy: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny

The Book of Secrets

A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China

Born in 1946? What else happened?

What else happened?

Prisoners of Geography

Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Nelson Outdoor & Environmental Studies VCE Units 1-4

5th Edition

The Infinite Game

From the bestselling author of Start With Why

The Globalization of World Politics

9th Edition - An Introduction to International Relations

A Different Kind of Power

A Memoir

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Relations

2nd edition

Kingmaker

Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance

The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

Defiance

Stories from Nature and Its Defenders

This product is categorised by