Thinking about Congress
Subtitle: essays on Congressional change
By: Lawrence C. Dodd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780415991551; 9780415991568
Subjects: Politics and government; United States; United States. Congress; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Congress as public mirror; title: Congress and the quest for power, 1977; title: Congress, the constitution and the crisis of legitimation, 1981; title: Bicameralism in Congress: the changing partnership, with Edward Carmines, 1985; title: The cycles of legislative change: building a dynamic model, 1986a; title: A theory of Congressional cycles: solving the puzzle of change, 1986b; title: Congress, the presidency and the American experience: a transformational perspective, 1991; title: Congress and the politics of renewal: redressing the crisis of legitimation, 1993; title: The new American politics: reflections on the early 1990s, 1995; title: Re-envisioning Congress: theoretical perspectives on Congressional change, 2004, 2001/2005; title: Making sense out of our exceptional Senate, 2002.