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Congress Responds to the Twentieth Century

by SUNIL AHUJA and ROBERT E. DEWHIRST
The Ohio State University Press, 2003
Cloth: 978-0-8142-0940-0 | Paper: 978-0-8142-5116-4
Library of Congress Classification JK1021.C5585 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 328.730904

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     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
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