The American Congress
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 7, 11/10/2011
EAN 9781107654358, ISBN10: 1107654351
Paperback, 474 pages, 23.4 x 15.6 x 2.7 cm
Language: English
The American Congress provides the most current treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, this book presents a crisp introduction to major features of Congress: parties and committee systems, leadership, voting and floor activity. This text contains discussions of the importance of presidents, courts and interest groups in congressional policy making. Recent developments are also discussed within the context of congressional political history. The seventh edition includes complete coverage of the first Congress of the Obama presidency, the 2010 midterm elections, healthcare reform and an early perspective on the 112th Congress with a Republican majority.
1. The American Congress
modern trends
2. Representation and lawmaking in Congress
the constitutional and historical context
3. Congressional elections and policy alignments
4. Members, goals, resources, and strategies
5. Parties and leaders
6. The standing committees
7. The rules of the legislative game
8. The floor and voting
9. Congress and the president
10. Congress and the courts
11. Congress, lobbyists, and interest groups
12. Congress and budget politics.