Getting Their Act Together: Oversight Agenda-Setting in the House of Representatives and the Facilitation of Policy Goals through Public Narrative

• In Event: Agenda Setting and Oversight on Committees in Legislatures

Brief Overview

This paper presents a new typology for investigations in Congress and shows that investigations oriented toward policy change respond to partisan incentives whereas conventional investigations into waste, fraud and abuse in government do not.

Author

• Claire Catherine Leavitt, Cornell University