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Political science

a legislative committee's ability to keep a bill from reaching the floor, which gives it leverage over policy even without sole power to propose.

In political science, gatekeeping power refers to a legislative committee's ability to keep a bill from reaching the floor, which gives it leverage over policy even without sole power to propose. This meaning comes from Denzau (1983) in American Journal of Political Science.[1]

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Denzau, A. T., & Mackay, R. J. (1983). Gatekeeping and Monopoly Power of Committees: An Analysis of Sincere and Sophisticated Behavior. American Journal of Political Science, 27(4), 740. https://doi.org/10.2307/2110891

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