The Contemporary Congress
3rd Edition
Published on 29. October 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-312-20861-5 (ISBN)
Description
Published in a new edition with each new Congress, The Contemporary Congress is always the most up-to-date text available. The third edition continues to focus on the struggle between centralising and decentralising forces in the legislative branch
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
282 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-312-20861-5 (9780312208615)
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Other editions
New editions
Burdett A. Loomis | Wendy Schiller
The Contemporary Congress
Book
09/2003
4th Edition
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
€44.79
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Previous edition
Burdett A. Loomis
The Contemporary Congress
Book
04/1998
2nd Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€40.47
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Person
BURDETT A LOOMIS is a professor of political science at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1974, served as an American Political Science Congressional Fellow in 1975-6 and has taught at the University of Kansas since 1979.
Content
Preface - About the Author - The Drama of Representation - Congressional Decentralisation in Design and Evolution - The Changing Environment of Congressional Politics - Congressional Elections: Roots of the Centrifugal Congress - Congressional Committees - The Individual Enterprise - Parties and Leadership: Capturing the Congress - Presidential-Congressional Relations: Focus, Authority and Negotiation - The Legislative Process and the Rules of the Game - The Competitive Congress: Centrifugal Forces in a Partisan Era - Index