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A 3 page review of the 1968 article by author Nelson W. Polsby. This article
traces the history of the U.S. House of Representatives from its initial formation in the mid 1700s to the mid 1900s and supports the authors
contention that within these two centuries the House of Representatives has become progressively more institutionalized. No additional sources are
listed.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPhouseR.rtf
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article titled "The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives" author Nelson W. Polsby traces the history of the U.S. House of Representatives from its initial formation in the mid
1700s to the mid 1900s. Polsby contends that within these two centuries the House of Representatives has become progressively more institutionalized:
"more bounded, more complex, and more universalistic and automatic in its internal decision making" (Polsby, 1968, 145).
Polsby (1968) next elaborates on these three evolutionary changes. He first clarifies that by "bounded" he means that
the organization has become more and more distinguishable from its environment over time. This is particularly relevant to the manner in which the House of Representatives channels its members
through the ranks. As opposed to an undifferentiated organization where members can enter and exit the organization at any number of points with ease and relative frequency and emerge
almost overnight to take leadership roles and then exit from those roles, members of the House of Representatives are more long term and static in their nature. That characteristic
has, in fact, increased over the two century history of the organization. Polsby (1968) actually uses graphs to illustrate this change. These graphs clearly detail a steep increase
in the number of years of service for House members between 1789 and 1963 and a corresponding decline in the mean percentage of first-term members. Polsby (1968, 149) also
notes: "there has been a change over time in the seniority of men selected for
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