The broken branch
Subtitle: how Congress is failing America and how to get it back on track
By: Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
Contributors: Ornstein, Norman J.; Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands; Annenberg Public Policy Center
Edition: 2008 ed.
Series: Institutions of American democracy; Institutions of American democracy series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780195368710
Subjects: United States; United States. Congress; Reform
Description: The Broken Branch  offers both a diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional. --frompublisher description
Notes: "Updated with new epilogue"--Cover.

"The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands."

"The Annenberg Public Policy."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: The first branch of government : theory and practice; title: The seeds of the contemporary problem, 1969-1994; title: A decade of Republican control; title: Institutional decline; title: The case of continuity; title: Conclusion; title: Epilogue: is the broken branch on the mend?