The tenth edition of this core textbook provides a fresh perspective and a crisp introduction to congressional politics. Informed by the authors’ Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, the text emphasizes the importance of a strong legislature and offers discussion questions and further reading.
By the same authors who drew upon Capitol Hill experience and nationally recognized scholarship to present a crisp introduction and analysis of Congress's inner mechanics, the Reader compiles the best relevant scholarship on party and ...
A collection of forty essays that demystifies the inner workings of this branch of the government, exploring important periods in history from the signing of the Constitution to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
This book is organized into three distinct parts: "The American System of Government," "The Present Position of Congress," and "The Future of Congress," which discusses democracy and liberty, and ultimately asks, "Can Congress survive?"
—Michael Barone, November On Capitol Hill, like it or not, the s was Newt Gingrich's decade.Certainly he made a major ... See David S. Broder, ''Newt Gingrich's Legacy: He'll Be Gone, But the House of Representatives ...
The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century.
In the second edition of The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players, explaining their ...
An accessible approach to a modern Congress course
Morris further informed the Congress that he could not accept the position of superintendent if he had to give up these " commercial establishments . " Duane and Mathews again moved " that the United States in Congress assembled do not ...
This is an account of how Congress today really works, and doesn't, that follows the dramatic journey of the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008.
The Japanese Diet and the U.S. Congress have in common many of the characteristics of democratic institutions, similarities that can be seen in the way the two legislative bodies are constituted, in what they do, and in how they do it.