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Supplement prepared by the Michigan Senate Fellows of 1964-65 and dated November 1964 (20 p.) inserted. ; Mimeographed. ; Mode of access: Internet.

These measure the overall effectiveness of the legislative process. Further refinements that measure target sub-groups are needed. For example, we can set metric that measure individual committee performance which will allow for granular measurements that can be aggregated.

Originally published in 1968, this book deals with the process of public legislation in modern Britain at the time, not in terms of constitutional formulae, but by a realistic appraisal of the relationships between the political institutions and forces which gave the process its shape. It concentrates particularly on the procedures and conventions which operated at the preparatory stages of legislation, and established that legislation was almost exclusively a governmental function, Parliament playing only a minor role. It is particularly concerned to stress the extent to which consultation by the government with pressure groups was now a major feature of the legislative process, and concludes that subordinate departmental legislation, developed as a result of collaboration between pressure groups and Civil Servants, was the most characteristic and important stage of the legislative process in Britain. The book brought together the conclusions of recent scholarship in this field, and the result is a balanced perspective of an important decision-making process of British government at the time. Today it can be read in its historical context.

In this analytical essay, we advance a simple but powerful claim: scholars can better understand outcomes of international organizations (IOs) by developing theories that explicitly make assumptions about legislative process. Because process assumptions powerfully explain domestic legislative outcomes and many international assemblies demonstrate similarities to domestic legislatures, scholars could usefully employ legislative-process-centric approaches when theorizing about outcomes in world politics. Following an explication of why scholars might focus on legislative procedure, we describe several legislative procedures and highlight variance across those procedures within several well-known IOs. We also suggest that this variance and the shadow of power politics cast over IOs provides fertile ground for comparative legislative scholars—including scholars of the U.S. Congress—to develop and test new theories of legislative procedure.

In this analytical essay, we advance a simple but powerful claim: scholars can better understand outcomes of international organizations (IOs) by developing theories that explicitly make assumptions about legislative process. Because process assumptions powerfully explain domestic legislative outcomes and many international assemblies demonstrate similarities to domestic legislatures, scholars could usefully employ legislative-process-centric approaches when theorizing about outcomes in world politics. Following an explication of why scholars might focus on legislative procedure, we describe several legislative procedures and highlight variance across those procedures within several well-known IOs. We also suggest that this variance and the shadow of power politics cast over IOs provides fertile ground for comparative legislative scholars—including scholars of the U.S. Congress—to develop and test new theories of legislative procedure.

This annotated syllabus outlines a procedure for integrating televised coverage of the U.S. Congress into a regular course on the U.S. Congress or the legislative process. The first section is a facsimile of the syllabus students would receive. A number of suggested assignments are included from which the faculty or students would have to choose. The appendices describe the written assignments in detail. The course begins with the premise that introducing television coverage of Congress can augment traditional methods making the educational experience better, but it is not a replacement for the faculty member of a panacea for a poorly designed or implemented course.

This pamphlet tells the history of the legislative process, how a bill becomes a law, committees and a glossary of legislative terms.