Bridging the information gap : legislative member organizations as social networks in the United States and the European Union / Nils Ringe and Jennifer Nicoll Victor ; with Christopher J. Carman.
Publisher: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780472029211 (e-book)
- 0472118803 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780472118809
- 328.3/306 23
- JF511 .R55 2013eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bridging the information gap: the social and political power of legislative member organizations -- Solutions to informational collective action dilemmas: theorizing the benefits of legislative member organizations -- Where in the world are LMOs? -- Building the case: legislative member organizations in the European Parliament and the U.S. Congress -- Networking the legislators -- There's no such thing as too much information (in legislative politics) -- Conclusion: how LMOs do and do not matter -- Appendix A. Survey questions -- Appendix B. Exponential random graph models.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.