Looking for a Smoking Gun: Committee Jurisdictions and Congressional Voting Decisions

Charles R Shipan

Public Choice, 1995, vol. 83, issue 1-2, 65-79

Abstract: The nature of jurisdictional boundaries of committees in the House of Representatives has received little scholarly attention. Recently, however, J. C. LaRue and L. S. Rothenberg (1992) focused specifically on this topic and concluded that for some legislators--namely, those involved in a jurisdictional dispute--jurisdictional issues were an important influence, above and beyond policy preferences, in determining votes. The author expands on their analysis in an attempt to discover whether members who are not involved in such a dispute also seek to protect jurisdictional property rights. He finds that these noninvolved members were not affected by the jurisdictional considerations. Copyright 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1995
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