Congress Reconsidered

, by Dodd, Lawrence C.; Oppenheimer, Bruce Ian

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ISBN: 9781568022031 | 1568022034
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Copyright: 6/1/1997

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Tables, Figures, and Boxes

vii

(4)

Contributors

(4)

Preface

Part I Patterns and Dynamics of Congressional Change

(80)

1. The U.S. Senate: Toward the Twenty-First Century

(28)

Norman J. Ornstein

Robert L. Peabody

David W. Rohde

2. Revolution in the House: Testing the Limits of Party Government

(32)

Lawrence C. Dodd

Bruce I. Oppenheimer

3. What the Public Dislikes About Congress

(20)

John R. Hibbing

Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

Part II Elections and Constituencies

(82)

4. Women and Blacks in Congress: 1870-1996

(19)

Carol M. Swain

5. Money and Motives: Spending in House Elections

100

(32)

Paul S. Herrnson

6. Voters, Candidates, and Issues in Congressional Elections

132

(31)

Robert S. Erikson

Gerald C. Wright

Part III Committee and Subcommittee Politics

163

(66)

7. Party Control of Committees in the Republican Congress

163

(30)

Steven S. Smith

Eric D. Lawrence

8. Congressional Tsunami? The Politics of Committee Reform

193

(19)

C. Lawrence Evans

Walter J. Oleszek

9. Institutional Change and Behaviorial Choice in House Committees

212

(17)

Richard L. Hall

Gary J. McKissick

Part IV Congressional Leadership and Party Politics

229

(64)

10. Party Leaders and the New Legislative Process

229

(17)

Barbara Sinclair

11. Partisanship, Bipartisanship, and Crosspartisanship in Congress Since the New Deal

246

(28)

Joseph Cooper

Garry Young

12. Congressional Caucuses in the 104th Congress

274

(19)

Susan Webb Hammond

Part V Congress, the Executive, and Public Policy

293

(78)

13. Assessing Congress's Role in the Making of Foreign Policy

293

(32)

Eileen Burgin

14. Centralization, Devolution, and Turf Protection in the Congressional Budget Process

325

(22)

James A. Thurber

15. The Contract with America: Origins and Assessments

347

(24)

John B. Bader

Part VI Congress and Political Change

371

(44)

16. Abdicating Congressional Power: The Paradox of Republican Control

371

(19)

Bruce I. Oppenheimer

17. Congress and the Emerging Order: Conditional Party Government or Constructive Partisanship?

390

(25)

Lawrence C. Dodd

Bruce I. Oppenheimer

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Congress Reconsidered

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