Deliberative Choices
Debating Public Policy in Congress
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Preface Introduction 1. The Strategy of Claims: A Theory of Congressional Debate 2. Assessing Legislative Debate 3. The Debate on Welfare Reform 4. The Debate on Estate Tax Repeal 5. The Debate on Telecommunications Deregulation 6. Patterns: Strategies and Claims 7. Patterns: Interactions and Information-Value 8. Improving Congressional Deliberation Appendix A: Procedures for Assessing Legislative Debate Appendix B: Coding for Information Difficulty and Uncertainty Appendix C: Supplementary Tables for Chapter 6 Appendix D: Supplementary Tables for Chapter 7 Notes Works Cited Index
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