Reed's rules and the partisan theory of legislative organization. (legislator Thomas Brakett Reed)

Polity | March 22, 1997| | Copyright

Recent studies of legislative organization have advanced competing distributive, informational, and partisan theories of legislative organization. Analyzed in light of a principal-agent framework, each offers a distinct account of the reasons for and the conditions most conducive to different types of legislative rules reform. In particular, the principal-agent framework permits better understanding of the conditions promoting partisan reform of House rules under Speaker Thomas Brackett Read in 1890 and under Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1995.

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