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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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2005]
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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.