The Dysfunctional Congress
Subtitle: The Individual Roots of an Institutional Dilemma (Dilemmas in American Politics                                              X)
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780813326986
Subjects: Central government; Political structure & processes; Reform; U.S. Congress (General); Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Government - Legislative Branch; Congress; United States.
First sentence: One of the long-standing puzzles concerning the U.S. Congress is why Americans seem to love their own representatives while at the same time detesting the institution of Congress (Fenno 1975).