{"id":3384,"date":"2016-07-14T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T17:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2016-07-19T15:38:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T19:38:05","slug":"is-the-house-of-representatives-deinstitutionalizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/is-the-house-of-representatives-deinstitutionalizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the House of Representatives Deinstitutionalizing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/House-of-Representatives-114th-WIki.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3385\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/is-the-house-of-representatives-deinstitutionalizing\/house-of-representatives-114th-wiki\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/House-of-Representatives-114th-WIki.png\" data-orig-size=\"1003,717\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"House of Representatives 114th WIki\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/House-of-Representatives-114th-WIki-300x214.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/House-of-Representatives-114th-WIki.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3385\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/House-of-Representatives-114th-WIki.png\" alt=\"House of Representatives 114th WIki\" width=\"1003\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/House-of-Representatives-114th-WIki.png 1003w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/House-of-Representatives-114th-WIki-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/House-of-Representatives-114th-WIki-768x549.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJeffery A. Jenkins\u2019 and Charles Stewart III\u2019s recently presented an important paper, \u201cThe Deinstitutionalization (?) of the House of Representatives.\u201d It re-evaluates Nelson Polsby\u2019s classic analysis that concluded the U.S. House of Representatives was becoming more \u201cinstitutionalized.\u201d Jenkins (University of Virginia) and Stewart (MIT) argue that some of the trends that Polsby observed have since reversed themselves, suggesting a possible deinstitutionalization of the House. It is a timely study, what with the recent concern expressed by Jonathan Rauch and others over legislative dysfunction&#8230;.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legbranch.com\/theblog\/2016\/7\/1\/is-the-house-of-representatives-deinstitutionalizing\">Read more at LegBranch.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffery A. Jenkins\u2019 and Charles Stewart III\u2019s recently presented an important paper, \u201cThe Deinstitutionalization (?) of the House of Representatives.\u201d It re-evaluates Nelson Polsby\u2019s classic analysis that concluded the U.S. House of Representatives was becoming more \u201cinstitutionalized.\u201d Jenkins (University of Virginia) and Stewart (MIT) argue that some of the trends that Polsby observed have since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[201,176],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-legbranch-com","tag-r-street-institute-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-SA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}