Print version: Ringe, Nils. Bridging the information gap : legislative member organizations as social networks in the United States and the European Union. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2013 xi, 274 pages ; 24 cm. ISBN 9780472118809
Bridging the information gap: the social and political power of legislative member organizations -- Solutions to informational collective action dilemmas: theorizing the benefits of legislative member organizations -- Where in the world are LMOs? -- Building the case: legislative member organizations in the European Parliament and the U.S. Congress -- Networking the legislators -- There’s no such thing as too much information (in legislative politics) -- Conclusion: how LMOs do and do not matter -- Appendix A. Survey questions -- Appendix B. Exponential random graph models.