Congress and Its Members
656Congress and Its Members
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Always balancing great scholarship with currency, the book features lively case material along with relevant data, charts, maps, and photos.
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ISBN-13: | 9781071901786 |
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Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Publication date: | 09/05/2023 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 656 |
Sales rank: | 574,168 |
File size: | 12 MB |
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About the Author
Roger H. Davidson was professor emeritus of government and politics at the University
of Maryland and served as visiting professor of political science at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. He was a senior fellow of the National Academy of Public
Administration. During the 1970s, he served on the staffs of reform efforts in both the
House (Bolling-Martin Committee) and the Senate (Stevenson-Brock Committee).
For the 2001–2002 academic year, he served as the John Marshall chair in political
science at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. His books include Remaking
Congress: Change and Stability in the 1990s, co-edited with James A. Thurber (1995),
and Understanding the Presidency, 7th ed., co-edited with James P. Pfiffner (2013).
Davidson was co-editor with Donald C. Bacon and Morton Keller of The Encyclopedia
of the United States Congress (1995).
Walter J. Oleszek is a senior specialist in the legislative process at the Congressional
Research Service. He has served as either a full-time professional staff aide or consultant
to many major House and Senate congressional reorganization efforts beginning
with the passage of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970. In 1993, he served as
policy director of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress. A former
adjunct faculty member at American University, Oleszek is a frequent lecturer to various
academic, governmental, and business groups. He is the author or co-author of several
books, including Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process, 11th ed. (2020),
and Congress Under Fire: Reform Politics and the Republican Majority, with C. Lawrence
Evans (1997).
Frances E. Lee is professor of politics and public affairs in the School of Public and
International Affairs and the Department of Politics at Princeton University. She has
been a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and an APSA congressional fellow.
Most recently, she is co-author of The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a
Polarized Era (2020). She is also the author of Insecure Majorities: Congress and the
Perpetual Campaign (2016) and Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship
in the U.S. Senate (2009) and co-author, with Bruce I. Oppenheimer, of Sizing Up
the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (1999). Her articles have
appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies
Quarterly, and American Journal of Political Science, among others.
Eric Schickler is Jeffrey&Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the
University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of three books that have won the
Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative politics: Disjointed Pluralism:
Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress (2001), Filibuster:
Obstruction and Lawmaking in the United States Senate (2006, with Gregory Wawro),
and Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (2016, with
Douglas Kriner; also a winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Prize for the best book on
executive politics). His book Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American
Liberalism, 1932–1965 was the winner of the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book
on government, politics, or international affairs published in 2016, and is co-winner of
the J. David Greenstone Prize for the best book in history and politics from the previous
two calendar years. He is also the co-author of Partisan Hearts and Minds, which
was published in 2002.
James M. Curry is professor of political science at the University of Utah. He is coauthor
of The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era (2020); author
of Legislating in the Dark: Information and Power in the House of Representatives (2015);
and winner of the Alan Rosenthal Prize, the E. E. Schattschneider Award, and the Carl
Albert Award. His research appears in the American Political Science Review, Journal of
Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly, among other outlets.
He received his Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland,
and he previously worked on Capitol Hill in the offices of Rep. Daniel Lipinski and the
House Appropriations Committee.
Table of Contents
Part I • In Search of the Two CongressesChapter 1 • The Two Congresses
Chapter 2 • Evolution of the Modern Congress
Part II • A Congress of Ambassadors
Chapter 3 • Going for It: Recruitment and Candidacy
Chapter 4 • Making It: The Electoral Game
Chapter 5 • Being There: Hill Styles and Home Styles
Part III • A Deliberative Assembly of One Nation
Chapter 6 • Leaders and Parties in Congress
Chapter 7 • Committees: Workshops of Congress
Chapter 8 • Congressional Rules and Procedures
Chapter 9 • Decision Making in Congress
Part IV • Policy Making and Change in the Two Congresses
Chapter 10 • Congress and the President
Chapter 11 • Congress and the Bureaucracy
Chapter 12 • Congress and the Courts
Chapter 13 • Congress and Organized Interests
Chapter 14 • Congress, Budgets, and Domestic Policy Making
Chapter 15 • Congress and National Security Policies
Part V • Conclusion
Chapter 16 • The Two Congresses and the American People
Appendix A: Party Control: Presidency, Senate, House, 1901–2023
Appendix B: Internships: Getting Experience on Capitol Hill
Suggested Readings
Notes
Index