%0 Book %A Kiewiet, D. Roderick %E McCubbins, Mathew D. (Mathew Daniel), 1956- %I University of Chicago Press %D 1991 %C Chicago %G English %B American politics and political economy %@ 9780226435299 (cloth : acid-free paper) %@ 0226435296 (cloth : acid-free paper) %@ 9780226435312 (pbk. : acid-free paper) %@ 0226435318 (pbk. : acid-free paper) %T The logic of delegation : congressional parties and the appropriations process %X The purpose of this book it to reexamine the unflattering image of congressional parties that pervades the literature. Doing so necessarily requires us to reassess the discouraging view of delegation upon which it is based