Eyes on Spies: Congress and the United States Intelligence Community by Amy B. Zegart

Author:Amy B. Zegart [Zegart, Amy B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, American Government, Legislative Branch, Intelligence & Espionage
ISBN: 9780817912840
Google: wLA_uAAACAAJ
Goodreads: 12671637
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: 2011-01-15T09:10:03+00:00

POLICE PATROL REVISITED: WHAT THE DATA SHOW

So much for logic. The next task is to look at the data and ask whether Congress actually does oversee more and differently in some policy areas than others. The answer is a resounding yes.

In order to measure the variance in police patrol oversight across policy domains, we examine the two most commonly used metrics in the literature: legislative productivity and hearing activity. Table 4.1 compares the legislative activity of the Senate Intelligence Committee to three other senate committees: Foreign Relations, Commerce, and Banking. When determining how to select appropriate committees for comparison, we relied on Richard Fenno’s classification system which divides congressional committees into three categories: prestige, policy, and constituency committees.16 Because intelligence is considered a national policy issue, we restricted ourselves to the policy category. In addition, we took an expansive definition of “legislative productivity,” including any bill or joint resolution that either originated in a committee or was referred to a committee and which then went on to become public law.

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