Contemporary social problems Book

A fairly decent "intermediate" textbook on committees. Although the authors present three hypotheses for the purpose and functionality of committees, it seems only discussed in the first chapter and nowhere else. (Nowhere else explicitly, I suppose arguably it is implicit in chapter 3 while discussing the different "types" of committees.)

The third edition has far less on the history of committees in the US. The authors cite their second edition for a thorough review of the subject, which seems odd to me.