Keeping tabs on the executive.
Congress has long exercised its power to oversee the executive branch. Important research has examined empirical patterns in congressional investigations, finding institutional, individual, policy, and partisan incentives motivate legislative inquiry. Yet, scholars largely have overlooked one fundam...
| Publicado en: | Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 186 - 209 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2023
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