Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Theories of Legislative Organization and the Development of U.S. State Legislative Committee Systems

政治学博士论文研究：立法组织理论与美国州立法委员会制度的发展

• 批准号: 0079928
• 负责人: Keith Hamm
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至 2002-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0079928&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Science

Over the course of the twentieth century, the committee systems of U.S. state legislatures have undergone major transformations in their structure and procedure. The purpose of this Doctoral Dissertation Research Support project is to assess these changes using three well-known theories concerning the role of the committee system in the U.S. Congress. These theories are the distributive, informational, and partisan theories. While each theory views the committee system as an agent of some principal group associated with the legislature, and assigns committees a very specific and different role/purpose in the legislative process, none of these theories have directly addressed the conditions under which committee procedures and structures will change and how they will change.The goal of this Doctoral Dissertation Research Support project is to delineate and empirically test expectations about changes in committee system structure and procedure based upon the distributive, informational and partisan theories of legislative organization. First, why will committee systems change? Second, how will the committee system be changed? Will these changes be structural, procedural or both? Specifically, with respect to procedure, when will the committee system be strengthened relative to the floor of the chamber and when will it be weakened? These questions need to be addressed both theoretically and empirically, and will be the focus of this project. Data collected from all 50 states for the period 1955-1996 will be used to address these questions.

在整个世纪，美国州议会的委员会制度在其结构和程序上经历了重大变革。 这个博士论文研究支持项目的目的是使用三个著名的理论，关于委员会系统在美国国会的作用，以评估这些变化。 这些理论是分配理论、信息理论和党派理论。 虽然每一种理论都将委员会制度视为与立法机关有关的某个主要群体的代理人，并赋予委员会在立法过程中非常具体和不同的作用/目的，这些理论都没有直接涉及委员会程序和结构将发生变化的条件以及它们将如何变化。本博士论文研究支持项目的目标是描述和实证检验基于立法组织的分配理论、信息理论和党派理论，对委员会制度结构和程序的变化的期望。 第一，委员会制度为什么要改变？ 第二，委员会制度将如何改变？ 这些变化是结构性的，还是程序性的，还是两者兼而有之？ 具体而言，关于程序问题，委员会制度相对于会议厅而言何时会得到加强，何时会被削弱？ 这些问题需要从理论和实证两方面加以解决，也将是本项目的重点。 1955-1996年期间从所有50个州收集的数据将用于回答这些问题。