The first undergraduate Congress text written from a rational-choiceperspective, Analyzing Congress provides students with the basicanalytical tools for understanding congressional politics.
Nearly 40 men and women, Republicans and Democrats, who served in the US House of Representatives during the past four decades, and one former lobbyist recount their personal experience at the job. S
The Dance of Legislation has long been considered a classic description of the legislative process. In it, Eric Redman draws on his two years as a member of Senator Warren Magnuson's staff to trace th
Good governance, that is, effective government based on non-arbitrary decision-making, is central to a country's successful development or transition to a market-oriented economy. This Manual aims to
The Legislature is the dominant branch of government in Colorado. Yet until now, there has been no single study that so richly portrays this powerful institution and the nature of its membership.The C
The balance of powers among the branches of government is the defining structure of American democracy. The Founders assumed each branch would jealously guard its own prerogatives to prevent tyrannica
"Some people study policy making, other people do it. . ..McDonough's spirited account of his dual life in the political trenches of the Massachusetts legislature and the analytic turf of the academy
What!'s happened to the longstanding traditions of civility and decorum within the world's greatest deliberative body? While the Senate hasn't yet become as rancorous as the House, over the past three
What It Means to Serve the Public In a vigorous defense of public life, Senator Joseph Lieberman, renowned as one of our most articulate and respected politicians, defines the duty, the honor and the
Reviews the existing literature on debates in the House and Senate, and extracts from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin a critical methodology designed to serve as a heuristic prompt for fuller examination.
Hulsey (American history, U. of Virginia) portrays Dirksen in his critical yet contradictory role in defining issues of post-World War II America, and in the conflicts internal to the Republican party
The first comprehensive analysis of Barbara Jordan's written speeches. The speeches offer important insights into Jordan's moral theories and her model of a flourishing multi-ethnic society.
The bases of uneasy member-leadership relations, their manifestation and sometimes resolution, and the consequences of member-leadership tension to effective parliamentary performace and policy-making
It has been predicted that term limits in state legislatures--soon to be in effect in eighteen states--will first affect the composition of the legislatures, next the behavior of legislators, and fina
Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address
