caa a22 4500 386341508 CHVBK 20180307111753.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1962061 doi S0003055400085981 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1962061 Weingast Barry R. Hoover Institution Floor Behavior in the U.S. Congress: Committee Power Under the Open Rule [Elektronische Daten] [Barry R. Weingast] The open rule in the House is a complex set of restrictions, limiting, for example, the number of motions and the order of recognition. By incorporating constraints based on the actual set of rules into a model, I show that legislative outcomes appear more predictable than was previously thought. These rules nearly always allow the proponents of legislation to respond to an opponent's amendment, mitigating the potential damage of the latter. An advantage of the approach is that it provides a new interpretation of the changes in floor activity observed in the postreform period. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989 American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/3(1989-09), 795-815 0003-0554 83:3<795 1989 83 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/1962061 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1962061 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Weingast Barry R. Hoover Institution NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/3(1989-09), 795-815 0003-0554 83:3<795 1989 83 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge