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Political science

the view that congressional committees are institutions for enforcing vote trades so members can deliver benefits to their districts.

In political science, distributive theory of legislative organization refers to the view that congressional committees are institutions for enforcing vote trades so members can deliver benefits to their districts. This meaning comes from Weingast (1988) in Journal of Political Economy.[1]

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Weingast, B. R., & Marshall, W. J. (1988). The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets. Journal of Political Economy, 96(1), 132-163. https://doi.org/10.1086/261528

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