
Congress Reconsidered
CQ Press
10th Edition
Published on 12. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
560 pages
978-1-4522-2782-5 (ISBN)
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Description
Since its first edition, Congress Reconsidered was designed to make available the best contemporary work from leading congressional scholars in a form that is both challenging and accessible to undergraduates. For almost four decades, Dodd and Oppenheimer have delivered on this goal. With their tenth edition, this tradition continues, but with the benefit of contributing authors now able to focus on how various aspects of Congress have changed over time. Gary Jacobson not only analyzes congressional elections in the present day, but looks at changes that have occurred in elections since the 1970s. James Thurber places today's struggles over the budget in the context of budget politics since the passage of the Budget and Impoundment Control Act. John Aldrich, Brittany Perry, and David Rohde trace the evolution of the House's most influential committees, while Kathryn Pearson examines the growth (in number and influence) of women members of Congress. Simply put, this volume remains on the cutting edge with key insights into the workings of Congress.
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Edition
10th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
689 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4522-2782-5 (9781452227825)
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Persons
Lawrence C. Dodd holds the Manning J. Dauer Eminent Scholar Chair in Political Science at the University of Florida. His books include Coalitions in Parliamentary Government (1976), Congress and the Administrative State (coauthored with Richard Schott, 1979), The Dynamics of American Politics (coedited with Cal Jillson, 1994), Learning Democracy (coauthored with Leslie E. Anderson, 2005), and Thinking About Congress (2012). His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Polity, Journal of Democracy, and elsewhere. Dodd has served as a congressional fellow, Hoover national fellow, and Woodrow Wilson Center fellow; president of the Southern and Southwestern Political Science Associations; and chair of the APSA's Legislative Studies Section.
Bruce I. Oppenheimer is professor of political science at Vanderbilt University and director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He has been a Brookings fellow in Governmental Studies (1970-1971) and an APSA congressional fellow (1974-1975). He is author of Oil and the Congressional Process: The Limits of Symbolic Politics (1974). His book Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (1999), cowritten with Frances Lee, was awarded the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation's D. B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress. He is also the editor of U.S. Senate Exceptionalism (2002) and the author of numerous articles. His recent research focuses on Congress and energy policy and on variation in competition in open-seat House primaries.
Bruce I. Oppenheimer is professor of political science at Vanderbilt University and director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He has been a Brookings fellow in Governmental Studies (1970-1971) and an APSA congressional fellow (1974-1975). He is author of Oil and the Congressional Process: The Limits of Symbolic Politics (1974). His book Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (1999), cowritten with Frances Lee, was awarded the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation's D. B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress. He is also the editor of U.S. Senate Exceptionalism (2002) and the author of numerous articles. His recent research focuses on Congress and energy policy and on variation in competition in open-seat House primaries.
Content
The New World of U.S. Senators - Barbara Sinclair
Gender and Minority Politics in Congress - Kathryn Pearson
Voters, Candidates, and Issues in Congressional Elections - Robert Erikson, Gerald Wright
Electoral Competition, Partisanship and Money in Congress: A Forty Year Perspective - Gary Jacobson
Party Loyalty and Campaign Contributions - Tracy Sulkin, William Bernhard
The Dynamics of Party Government in Congress - Steven Smith, Gerald Gamm
Change and Stability in Committee Politics: A Forty Year Retrospective - John Aldrich, David Rohde
Delay and Obstruction in the House and the Senate: An Historical Perspective - Gregory Koger
Measuring Member Effectiveness - Alan Wiseman, Craig Volden
The Politics of Advice and Consent: Putting Judges on the Federal Bench - Sarah Binder, Forrest Maltzman
Energy Politics - Bruce Oppenheimer
Transforming American Politics through Tax Policy - Catherine Rudder
Congress and Budgetary Politics: A Forty Year Perspective - James Thurber
Congress, the President, and Foreign Politics - William Howell, Douglas Kriner
Congress, the President, and Power Relations - Joseph Cooper
Member Incivility, Party Polarization, and Policy Productivity in Congress - Lawrence Dodd, Scot Schraufnagel
Gender and Minority Politics in Congress - Kathryn Pearson
Voters, Candidates, and Issues in Congressional Elections - Robert Erikson, Gerald Wright
Electoral Competition, Partisanship and Money in Congress: A Forty Year Perspective - Gary Jacobson
Party Loyalty and Campaign Contributions - Tracy Sulkin, William Bernhard
The Dynamics of Party Government in Congress - Steven Smith, Gerald Gamm
Change and Stability in Committee Politics: A Forty Year Retrospective - John Aldrich, David Rohde
Delay and Obstruction in the House and the Senate: An Historical Perspective - Gregory Koger
Measuring Member Effectiveness - Alan Wiseman, Craig Volden
The Politics of Advice and Consent: Putting Judges on the Federal Bench - Sarah Binder, Forrest Maltzman
Energy Politics - Bruce Oppenheimer
Transforming American Politics through Tax Policy - Catherine Rudder
Congress and Budgetary Politics: A Forty Year Perspective - James Thurber
Congress, the President, and Foreign Politics - William Howell, Douglas Kriner
Congress, the President, and Power Relations - Joseph Cooper
Member Incivility, Party Polarization, and Policy Productivity in Congress - Lawrence Dodd, Scot Schraufnagel