Bridging the Information Gap: Legislative Member Organizations as Social Networks in the United States and the European Union

Contents

contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Bridging the Information Gap: The Social and Political Power of Legislative Member Organizations 1 2. Solutions to Informational Collective Action Dilemmas: Theorizing the Benefits of Legislative Member Organizations 18 3. Where in the World Are LMOs? 50 4. Building the Case: Legislative Member Organizations in the European Parliament and the U.S. Congress 75 5. Networking the Legislators 111 6. There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Information (in Legislative Politics) 146 7. Conclusion: How LMOs Do and Do Not Matter 185 Appendix A. Survey Questions 213 Appendix B. Exponential Random Graph Models 215 Notes 217 References 243 Index 265 ...