The legislative branch /

Contains eighteen essays in which political scientists and scholars of public policy examine the performance of the U.S. Congress as a democratic institution, covering ideals and development, elections and representation, structures and processes, policy and performance, and assessments and prospect...

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Corporate Author: Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Other Authors: Quirk, Paul J., 1949-, Binder, Sarah A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
Series:Institutions of American democracy series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Congress and the constitutional system / Charles Stewart III
  • Institutional development of congress / Eric Schickler
  • Actions in the public sphere / David R. Mayhew
  • Modern campaigns and representation / Gary C. Jacobson
  • Elections, parties, and governance / Sarah A. Binder
  • Representing racial and ethnic minorities / David T. Canon
  • Committees and policy formulation / David W. Rohde
  • Parties and leadership in the house / Barbara Sinclair
  • Parties and leadership in the Senate / Steven S. Smith
  • Interests, constituencies, and policy making / Frances E. Lee
  • Deliberation and decision making / Paul J. Quirk
  • Foreign affairs and war / Christopher J. Deering
  • Budgets and fiscal policy / Eric Patashnik
  • Advice and consent : cooperation and conflict in the appointment of federal judges / Forrest Maltzman
  • Congress and the bureaucracy / Charles R. Shipan
  • Images of congress / John R. Hibbing
  • Politics of congressional reform / C. Lawrence Evans
  • Congress and American democracy : assessing institutional performance / Paul J. Quirk and Sarah Binder.