The decline of representative democracy
Subtitle: process, participation, and power in state legislatures
By: Alan Rosenthal.
Publisher: CQ Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Legislative bodies -- United States -- States.; State governments -- United States.
Description: "Based on a leading scholar's firsthand observations of legislatures as well as extensive interviews with legislators, legislative staff, and lobbyists, this important new work describes and analyzes the contemporary state of legislatures and the legislative process in the fifty states. It explores the principal elements of legislatures, including the processes by which legislation is enacted, the impact of the media, political competition and partisanship, lobbyists and lobbying, the challenge of ethics, the roll of leadership, and the linkage between legislators and their constituencies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-357) and index.