Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1	Congress in the Twentieth Century
Sunil Ahuja and Robert Dewhirst
I. Congress and Its Members
Chapter 2	From Concept to Context: Representation in the Twentieth Century
George E. Connor and Bruce I. Oppenheimer
Chapter 3	The Decline of Competition and Change in Congressional Elections
James E. Campbell and Steve J. Jurek
Chapter 4	Life and Work on the Hill: Careers, Norms, Staff, and Informal Caucuses
Susan Webb Hammond
II. Congress as an Institution
Chapter 5	Full Circle? Congressional Party Leadership during the Twentieth Century
Barbara Sinclair
Chapter 6	Sticky Rules: Procedural Change in the Twentieth-Century Congress
Sarah A. Binder
Chapter 7	Ebb and Flow in Twentieth-Century Committee Power
Christopher J. Deering
Chapter 8	The Decline and Rise of Congressional Parties in the Twentieth Century
Patricia A. Hurley
Chapter 9	The Changing Context of the Yeas and Nays in Congress
John R. Hibbing
III. Congress and Other Institutions
Chapter 10	The Congress and the President in the Twentieth Century
Karen S. Hoffman and Michael L. Mezey
Chapter 11	The Essential Bond: Congress and Interest Groups in the Twentieth Century
Burdett A. Loomis
Chapter 12	Congress at Century's End
Sunil Ahuja and Robert Dewhirst
List of Contributors
Index
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: United States,  Congress, United States,  Congress Powers and duties