Congress In Context

Author : John Haskell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429974991

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Congress in Context by John Haskell Pdf

The U.S. Congress is by the far the least popular (and most misunderstood) branch of the federal government. Congress in Context de-mystifies the institution, giving students a comprehensive and practical understanding of Congress and the legislative process. This book takes a different approach to the study of Congress than other texts. Usually Congress is treated in isolation from the rest of the government. But the Framers of the Constitution explicitly intended for the branches of government to be interdependent. Congress in Context introduces readers to Congress's critical role in the context of this interdependent system. Using the metaphor of a board of directors, the authors explain the three key roles of Congress within the federal government (authorizing what government does, funding its activities, and supervising how it carries out the laws Congress passes) and shows students how Congress interacts with the rest of the government to exercise these powers. The thoroughly expanded and revised second edition features brand-new chapters on Congress and the courts and Congress and interest groups. It also includes expanded coverage of Congress's relationship with the executive branch, campaign finance, and today's major budget issues. Grounded in the latest political science literature coupled with contemporary examples, Congress in Context offers students an informed yet accessible introduction to how the legislative branch carries out its duties.

Author : Sunil Ahuja,Robert E. Dewhirst
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814209408

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Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century by Sunil Ahuja,Robert E. Dewhirst Pdf

Congress occupies a central place in the U.S. political system. Its reach into American society is vast and deep. Overtime, the issues it has confronted have increased in both quantity and complexity. At the beginning, Congress dealt with a handful of matters, whereas today it has its hands in every imaginable aspect of life. It has attempted to meet these challenges and has changed throughout the course of its history, prodded by factors both external and internal to the institution. The essays in this volume argue therefore that as society changed throughout the twentieth century, Congress responded to those changes.

Author : Andrew Chesterman,Natividad Gallardo San Salvador,Yves Gambier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027216441

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Translation in Context by Andrew Chesterman,Natividad Gallardo San Salvador,Yves Gambier Pdf

This title is a collection of contributions illustrating research interests and achivements in translation studies at the turn of the 21st century. The contributions show how the context of translation has expanded to cover documentation techniques, cultural and psychological factors, computer tools, ideological issues, media translation and methodologies. A total of 32 papers deal with aspects such as conceptual analysis in translation studies, situational, sociological and political factors, and psychological and cognitive aspects of translation.

Author : Matthew D. McCubbins,Terry Sullivan
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1987-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052133750X

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Congress by Matthew D. McCubbins,Terry Sullivan Pdf

First published in 1987, Congress: Structure and Policy is a review of congressional research from an institutional perspective. The selections blend theoretical material found in the fields of discussion theory, political economy, social choice and game theory, with classics on such standard topics as elections and campaigning, controlling the bureaucracy and oversight, norms of behaviour, committees and committee assignments reform, budgeting, presidential influence, and the party and its leadership. Together, these readings present an institutional theory of Congress. They are integrated in order to address both the short-run issue of how congressional institutions shape policy and the long-run question of why congressional organization has evolved the way it has. In their introductions to the chapters, the editors, Professors McCubbins and Sullivan, not only address the themes of the individual readings but place the chapters in the larger context of the political economy.

Author : Donald R. Wolfensberger
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801867266

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Congress and the People by Donald R. Wolfensberger Pdf

Will some form of direct democracy supplant representative, deliberative government in the twenty-first century United States? That question is at the heart of Donald R. Wolfensberger's history of Congress and congressional reform, which runs back to the Constitution's creation of a popularly elected House of Representatives and forward to the surreal ending of the 105th Congress, featuring barrels of pork, resignation of the speaker, and impeachment of the president. The author's expertise comes from twenty-eight years as a staff member in the House, culminating in service as chief of staff of the powerful House Rules Committee. He was a top parliamentary expert and a principal Republican procedural strategist. Sensitive to the power of process, Wolfensberger is an authoritative guide to reform efforts of earlier eras. And as a participant in reforms since the 1960s, he offers a unique perspective on forging the "1970s sunshine coalition," televising House proceedings, debating term limits, and coping with democracy in an electronic age.

Author : Fergus M. Bordewich
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780451494443

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Congress at War by Fergus M. Bordewich Pdf

The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War-placing a dynamic House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict.

Author : Roger H. Davidson,Walter J. Oleszek,Frances E. Lee,Eric Schickler
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506369754

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Congress and Its Members by Roger H. Davidson,Walter J. Oleszek,Frances E. Lee,Eric Schickler Pdf

The gold standard for Congress courses for over 30 years Congress and Its Members, Sixteenth Edition, by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Frances E. Lee, and Eric Schickler, offers readers current, comprehensive coverage of Congress and the legislative process by examining the tension between Congress as a lawmaking institution and as a collection of politicians constantly seeking re-election. The Sixteenth Edition of this best-selling text considers the 2016 elections and discusses the agenda of the new Congress, White House–Capitol Hill relations, party and committee leadership changes, judicial appointments, and partisan polarization, as well as covering changes to budgeting, campaign finance, lobbying, public attitudes about Congress, reapportionment, rules, and procedures. Always balancing great scholarship with currency, the best-seller features lively case material along with relevant data, charts, exhibits, maps, and photos.

Author : Peter Siavelis
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : UCSD:31822028108413

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The President and Congress in Postauthoritarian Chile by Peter Siavelis Pdf

As many formerly authoritarian regimes have been replaced by democratic governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, questions have arisen about the stability and durability of these new governments. One concern has to do with the institutional arrangements for governing bequeathed to the new democratic regimes by their authoritarian predecessors and with the related issue of whether presidential or parliamentary systems work better for the consolidation of democracy. In this book, Peter Siavelis takes a close look at the important case of Chile, which had a long tradition of successful legislative resolution of conflict but was left by the Pinochet regime with a changed institutional framework that greatly strengthened the presidency at the expense of the legislature. Weakening of the legislature combined with an exclusionary electoral system, Siavelis argues, undermines the ability of Chile's National Congress to play its former role as an arena of accommodation, creating serious obstacles to interbranch cooperation and, ultimately, democratic governability. Unlike other studies that contrast presidential and parliamentary systems in the large, Siavelis examines a variety of factors, including socioeconomic conditions and characteristics of political parties, that affect whether or not one of these systems will operate more or less successfully at any given time. He also offers proposals for institutional reform that could mitigate the harm he expects the current political structure to produce.

Author : R. Douglas Arnold
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300056591

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The Logic of Congressional Action by R. Douglas Arnold Pdf

Congress regularly enacts laws that benefit particular groups or localities while imposing costs on everyone else. Sometimes, however, Congress breaks free of such parochial concerns and enacts bills that serve the general public, not just special interest groups. In this important and original book, R. Douglas Arnold offers a theory that explains not only why special interests frequently triumph but also why the general public sometimes wins. By showing how legislative leaders build coalitions for both types of programs, he illuminates recent legislative decisions in such areas as economic, tax, and energy policy. Arnold's theory of policy making rests on a reinterpretation of the relationship between legislators' actions and their constituents' policy preferences. Most scholars explore the impact that citizens' existing policy preferences have on legislators' decisions. They ignore citizens who have no opinions because they assume that uninformed citizens cannot possibly affect legislators' choices. Arnold examines the influence of citizens' potential preferences, however, and argues that legislators also respond to these preferences in order to avoid future electoral problems. He shows how legislators estimate the political consequences of their voting decisions, taking into account both the existing preferences of attentive citizens and the potential preferences of inattentive citizens. He then analyzes how coalition leaders manipulate the legislative situation in order to make it attractive for legislators to support a general interest bill.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107590408

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Lawrence C. Dodd,Bruce I. Oppenheimer
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781506328805

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Congress Reconsidered by Lawrence C. Dodd,Bruce I. Oppenheimer Pdf

For almost four decades, the editors of Congress Reconsidered, Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer have delivered the best contemporary work from leading congressional scholars in a form that is both analytical and accessible. The tradition continues in this Eleventh Edition as contributing authors focus on the many ways Congress has changed over time and examine the conditions that foster these developments. Some of the most noted names in congressional studies address topics from broad dynamics affecting the institution, elections and constituencies, parties and internal organization, inter-branch relations, and policymaking. This new edition also ends with a capstone chapter on the milestone 2016 elections. Simply put, this bestselling volume remains on the cutting edge of scholarship, identifying patterns of change in Congress and placing those patterns in context.

Author : Richard F. Fenno Jr.
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807860638

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Congress at the Grassroots by Richard F. Fenno Jr. Pdf

However much politicians are demeaned and denounced in modern American society, our democracy could not work without them. For this reason, says Richard Fenno, their activities warrant our attention. In his pioneering book, Home Style, Fenno demonstrated that a close look at politicians at work in their districts can tell us a great deal about the process of representation. Here, Fenno employs a similarly revealing grassroots approach to explore how patterns of representation have changed in recent decades. Fenno focuses on two members of the U.S. House of Representatives who represented the same west-central Georgia district at different times: Jack Flynt, who served from the 1950s to the 1970s, and Mac Collins, who has held the seat in the 1990s. His on-the-scene observation of their differing representational styles--Flynt focuses on people, Collins on policy--reveals the ways in which social and demographic changes inspire shifts in representational strategies. More than a study of representational change in one district, Congress at the Grassroots also helps illuminate the larger subject of political change in the South and in the nation as a whole.

Author : J. Mitchell Pickerill
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 0822332620

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Constitutional Deliberation in Congress by J. Mitchell Pickerill Pdf

DIVAnalyzes the impact of the Supreme Court's constitutional decisions and its judicial review of statutes on lawmaking in Congress./div

Author : Timothy M. LaPira,Lee Drutman,Kevin R. Kosar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226702575

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Congress Overwhelmed by Timothy M. LaPira,Lee Drutman,Kevin R. Kosar Pdf

Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: it doesn’t have the internal capacity to do what our constitutional system requires of it. Leading scholars chronicle the institutional decline of Congress and the decades-long neglect of its own internal investments in the knowledge and expertise necessary to perform as a first-rate legislature. Today’s legislators and congressional committees have fewer—and less expert and experienced—staff than the executive branch or K Street. This leaves them at the mercy of lobbyists and the administrative bureaucracy. The essays in Congress Overwhelmed assess Congress’s declining capacity and explore ways to upgrade it. Some provide broad historical scope. Others evaluate the current decay and investigate how Congress manages despite the obstacles. Collectively, they undertake the most comprehensive, sophisticated appraisal of congressional capacity to date, and they offer a new analytical frame for thinking about—and improving—our underperforming first branch of government.

Author : Bruce Allen Bimber,Associate Professor of Political Science Bruce Bimber
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0791430596

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The Politics of Expertise in Congress by Bruce Allen Bimber,Associate Professor of Political Science Bruce Bimber Pdf

Examines the relationship between technical experts and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process.