Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress written by Eric Schickler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No legislature in the world has a greater influence over its nation's public affairs than the US Congress. The Congress's centrality in the US system of government has placed research on Congress at the heart of scholarship on American politics. Generations of American government scholars working in a wide range of methodological traditions have focused their analysis on understanding Congress, both as a lawmaking and a representative institution. The purpose of this volume is to take stock of this impressive and diverse literature, identifying areas of accomplishment and promising directions for future work. The editors have commissioned 37 chapters by leading scholars in the field, each chapter critically engages the scholarship focusing on a particular aspect of congressional politics, including the institution's responsiveness to the American public, its procedures and capacities for policymaking, its internal procedures and development, relationships between the branches of government, and the scholarly methodologies for approaching these topics. The Handbook also includes chapters addressing timely questions, including partisan polarization, congressional war powers, and the supermajoritarian procedures of the contemporary Senate. Beyond simply bringing readers up to speed on the current state of research, the volume offers critical assessments of how each literature has progressed - or failed to progress - in recent decades. The chapters identify the major questions posed by each line of research and assess the degree to which the answers developed in the literature are persuasive. The goal is not simply to tell us where we have been as a field, but to set an agenda for research on Congress for the next decade. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III

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Download or read book Us Congress Handbook State Edition written by Columbia Books Inc and published by Columbia Books Incorporated Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the only fully updated congressional directory available! The Original U.S. Congress Handbook is Washingtons most trusted source for information on congressional offices and their staff. Produced annually since 1974 it is by far the most comprehensive congressional directory available. This pocket size guide gets you up-close and personal with: Members of Congress including their complete contact information, photo, chief of staff, legislative director and scheduler Committee memberships so you can find out who's working on the issues you care about The Executive Branch complete with contact information for senior positions in Office of the President You'll also receive The 114th Alert, a free weekly e-newsletter bringing you the latest staff changes from Capitol Hill. Detailed profiles are organized by state delegation and contain biographical data.

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Download or read book Us Congress Handbook 2017 written by Columbia Books Inc and published by Columbia Books. Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arm your advocates with the ultimate guide to Congress and all that Washington has to offer. You'll get all the benefits of the standard edition plus bonus chapters on grassroots communication with Congress, local attractions and the Top 10 Restaurants for Politician Sightings. Get the only fully updated congressional directory available! The Original U.S. Congress Handbook is Washington's most trusted source for information on congressional offices and their staff. Produced annually since 1974 it is by far the most comprehensive congressional directory available. This pocket size guide gets you up-close and personal with: -Members of Congress including their complete contact information, photo, chief of staff, legislative director and scheduler -Committee memberships so you can find out who's working on the issues you care about -The Executive Branch complete with contact information for senior positions in Office of the President -You'll also receive The 115th Alert, a free weekly e-newsletter bringing you the latest staff changes from Capitol Hill. -Spiral bound. Detailed profiles contain biographical data, complete contact information for Members including address, phone, fax, committee assignments and key staff members. You'll also benefit from the easy-to-follow red vs. blue party affiliation markers and the exclusive "Member Name Pronunciation Guide."

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Download or read book The Logic of Congressional Action written by R. Douglas Arnold and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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