Congress: games and strategies
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Contents
Preface
xv
Introduction: The Congressional Games
1
1.
The Constitution: Establishing General Rules
15
2.
The Electoral Game
45
3-
The Arrival and Survival Games: Entering Congress and Staying There
101
4.
Organizing for Action: Party, Committee, and Policy Teams within the
Congressional Arenas
149
5.
Interpreting the Legislative Game: Congress, the Media, and the Public
191
6.
The Public and Its Players: Organized and Unorganized Citizens
219
7.
The Policy Game: The Procedures and Strategies That Determine
Winners and Losers
245
8.
Congress and Other Institutional Players: The President, the
Bureaucracy, and the Courts
287
9.
Congress and Policy Results
317
10.
Congress, Reform, and the Future: Games Can Change
345
Answer Key
379
Glossary
381
Notes
389
Bibliography
399
Index
419
About the Authors
433
vii
Contents
Preface
xv
Introduction:
The Congressional Games
1
1-1
Key Aspects of Games: A Checklist for Analysis
2
I-la Environments of Games
4
I-lb Players
6
I-lc Rules
8
I-Id Strategies
9
I-le Winners and Losers
10
1-2
Conclusion
12
Chapter Summary
13
Review Questions
13
1.
The Constitution: Establishing General Rules
15
1-1
The Task of Rule Making
16
1-2
The Political Environment
16
l-2a The Importance of Human Nature
17
l-2b The Goals of Governmental Rules
17
1-3
The Means to the Goals: A Game of Political Architecture
18
l-3a The Importance of Representation
18
1-ЗЬ
Separation of Powers
20
1-Зс
Checks and Balances
21
1-4
The New Congress: Mutes and Players
21
l-4a The People s Chamber
23
I-4b The Cooling Saucer
24
l-4c General Powers: The Key Rules
26
1-5
The Evolution of Congressional Games
30
1-6
Rival Arenas: The Contemporary House and Senate
32
ł
-ба
Structural Differences between the House and Senate
32
1-7
The Founders and Today
37
1-8
Conciaste»
39
Chapter Summary
40
Review Questions
40
In Depth
41
ix
;
Contents
2.
The Electoral Game
45
2-1
Rules of the Electoral Game
46
2-la Direct versus Indirect Election
47
2-lb State versus National Election Laws
47
2-lc Winner-Take-All Determination of Victories
48
2-
Id Fixed Terms of Office and Fixed Elections
48
2-le Stages in the Electoral Process
49
2-2
Drawing District Lines
52
2-2a Reapportionment
52
2-2b Redistricting
54
2-3
Deciding to Play the Electoral Game: Motivation and Opportunity
64
2-3a Feasibility
65
2-3b Availability
65
2-3c Resources
66
2-3d Motivation
68
2-3e Emergence of Congressional Candidates
71
2-3f The Dampening Impact of Incumbents and Hopeless Races
75
2-4
Campaign Strategy·. The Competition for Votes
76
2-4a Gathering the Necessary Resources
76
2-4b Campaign Money: The Price of Admission
76
2-4c Identifying the Players in the Election Arena
86
2-4d Communicating with the Voters
86
2-5
Determining the Players: Winning and Losing Congressional
Elections
92
2-5a Resources
92
2-5b The Inside Track for Incumbents
92
2-5c The Performance of Party Teams
92
2-6
Conclusion
96
Chapter Summary
97
Review Questions
98
In Depth
98
3.
The Arrival and Survival Games: Entering Congress and Staying There
101
3-1
The Elected Players
101
3-la Explaining the Demographic Mix
105
3-lb Understanding the Importance of the Demographic Mix 111
3-2
The Desirability of Staying in Office
115
3-3
The Growth of the Congressional Career
115
3-4
The Importance of Electoral Margins
115
3-5
Strategies for Survival
116
3-5a Defining the Congressional Job
117
3-5b Playing to the Crowd or Impressing Other Players
117
3-5c Marshaling the Available Resources
125
3-5d Adapting to the Human Environment: Learning the Social
Rules
159
3-5e Dealing with Issues: Stratepes for Survival
143
Contents
xi
3-6
The Consequences of the Survival Game
143
3-7
Conclusion
146
Chapter Summary
146
Review Questions
147
In Depth
148
4.
Organizing for Action: Party, Committee, and Policy Teams within the
Congressional Arenas
149
4-1
Introduction: Teams of Congress
149
4-2
The Party Teams
150
4-2a Organizing the Parties in Congress
150
4-2b The Functions of Party Leaders
151
4-2c Electing Team Captains: Choosing Party Leadership
151
4-2d Party Teams in Action
160
4-3
Chamber Leaders
163
4-3a Choosing Chamber Leaders
164
4-4
The Committee Arena: Task-Oriented Teams
166
4-4a Origin of Committees
166
4-4b Types of Committees
168
4-4c Joining a Committee Team
170
4-4d Choosing Committee Leadership
174
4-4e Committee Leadership Strategies
176
4-4f Supporting the Committee Team: Committee Staffs
176
4-4g Committee Teams in Action: Players, Rules, and Strategies
177
4-5
Competing Teams
181
4-5a Special Interest Caucuses: Teams with a Theme
181
4-5b New Teams for Troubled Times
184
4-6
Conclusion
186
Chapter Summary
186
Review Questions
187
In Depth
188
5.
Interpreting the Legislative Game: Congress, the Media, and the Public
191
5-1
The Congress versus the Media Game
193
5-
la The Competing Players
193
5-lb Traditional and Changing Rules
196
5-lc Communicator and Source Strategies
198
5-2
The Congress versus the Public Game: Circumventing the Media
and Reaching the Voters Directly
203
5-2a Constituent Outreach
204
5-2b Televising Congress
204
5-2c The Next Wave
208
5-3
The Consequences of Congressional Coverage Games: Public
Knowledge and Evaluation of Congress
208
5-3a Kaowteclge about Congress aad Its Members
208
5-3b Evaluation of Congress and Its Members
210
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Contents
5-4
Conclusion
216
Chapter Summary
216
Review Questions
217
In Depth
218
6.
The Public and Its Players: Organized and Unorganized Citizens
219
6-1
Reading the Constituency
220
6-la Strategies of Constituent Communication
220
6-lb Constituency Complexity and Intensity
222
6-lc Fear of Electoral Consequences
223
6-2
Interest Groups: The Organized External Players
224
6-2a Lobbying Rules and Resources
224
6-2b Public Strategies
230
6-2c Electoral Strategies
231
6-2d Institutional Strategies
232
6-2e Who Are the Lobbyists?
235
6-3
Who Wins and Who Loses?
237
6-4
Conclusion
242
Chapter Summary
242
Review Questions
243
In Depth
243
7.
The Policy Game: The Procedures and Strategies That Determine
Winners and Losers
245
7-1
The Emergence of Policy Issues: Setting the Congressional Agenda
246
7-la Defining Problems for the Agenda
248
7-lb Keeping Problems Oif the Agenda
248
7-2
Coalition Building: The Underlying Strategy of the Policy Game
249
7-2a Natural Coalitions
249
7-2b Bought Coalitions
254
7-2c Coalition Management Strategies
259
7-2d Assembling Winning Coalitions
—
Four Cases
259
7-3
Processing Legislation: How a Bill Becomes a Law
265
7-3a Introducing Legislation into the Legislative Arena
265
7-3b Surviving the Committee Arena
270
7-3c Floor Consideration
273
7-3d Reconciling Differences
281
7-3e Acquiring Presidential Support
282
7-4
Conclusion
283
Chapter Summary
283
Review Questions
284
In Depth
284
8.
Congress and Other Institutional
Players:
The President, the
Bureaucracy, and the Courts
287
8-1
Tfae Changing Mules of Congressional-Presidential Relations
289
Contents
xiii
8-la Executive Power and Its Ascendancy
290
8-lb Strategies of Congressional Resurgence
290
8-lc Divided Government: Institutional Teams at Odds
296
8-ld Presidential Strategies
297
8-le Patterns of Winning and Losing
301
8-2
Congress and the Bureaucracy
306
8-2a The Lineup of the Players
306
8-2b Strategies of Congressional Control
307
8-2c Subgovernments: Games within Games
308
8-2d Patterns of Oversight
309
8-2e Congress, the President, and the Bureaucracy
309
8-3
Congress and the Federal Courts
310
8-3a Determining the Judicial Players: The Politics
311
8-3b The Courts and Rules Relating to Congressional Powers
311
8-4
Conclusion
313
Chapter Summary
313
Review Questions
314
In Depth
315
9-
Congress and Policy Results
317
9-1
The Policy Game
318
9-2
Congressional Policy Strategies
319
9-2a The Strategy of Localism
319
9-2b The Strategy of Fragmentation
320
9-2c The Strategy of Incrementalism
320
9-2d The Strategy of Symbolism
322
9-3
Exceptions: The Great Departures
322
9-4
Policy Types and Policy Processes
323
9-4a Domestic Policy Patterns
323
9-4b Foreign Policy Patterns
327
9-5
The New Game Environment: An Uncertain Era
335
9-5a Traditional Budgeting
335
9-5b Budget Reform
336
9-5c The Reagan Budget Revolution
337
9-5d Why Deficits Grew
337
9-5e Gramm-Rudman-Hollings
339
9-5f Budget Strife, Surplus, and Uncertainty
340
9-6
Conclusion
341
Chapter Summary
341
Review Questions
342
In Depth
343
10.
Congress, Meform, and the Future: Games Can
Chaßge 345
10-1
Change
and
Reform
346
iO-la Forces for Change
346
xiv
Contents
10-lb Strategies for Reform
350
10-lc The Players in Congressional Reform
351
10-2
Reforms Affecting the Players
354
10-2a Campaign Finance Reform
354
10-2b Term Limits
356
10-2C Ethics
357
10-3
Reform of Institutional Rules
358
10-За
Congressional Lawmaking
359
10-ЗЬ
The Line-Item Veto
362
10-4
The Ideal Congress
363
10-4a Criteria for Reform
363
10-4b Questions to Ponder
364
10-5
The
2006
Midterm Elections
366
10-5a Women in the Senate
367
10-5b Backbenchers Take the Field
367
10-5C Going to the World Series?
370
10-6
Congress and the Future
371
10-7
Conclusion
375
Chapter Summary
375
Review Questions
376
In Depth
377
Answer Key
379
Glossary
381
Notes
389
Bibliography
399
Index
419
About the Authors
433
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