Steven S. Smith

American Congress (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The American Congress provides the most current treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, this book presents a crisp introduction to major features of Congress: parties and committee systems, leadership, voting and floor activity. This text contains discussions of the importance of presidents, courts and interest groups in congressional policy making. Recent developments are also discussed within the context of congressional political history. The seventh edition includes complete coverage of the first Congress of the Obama presidency, the 2010 midterm elections, healthcare reform and an early perspective on the 112th Congress with a Republican majority.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139125277
• Artikelnr.: 52860687

Autorenporträt

Steven S. Smith, Washington University, St Louis Steven S. Smith is a Professor of Political Science, the Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Science, and Director of the Murray Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University, St Louis. He has chaired the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association and has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Jason M. Roberts, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Jason M. Roberts is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He co-edited the book Why Not Parties? Party Effects in the US Senate (2009). His articles have been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Ryan J. Vander Wielen, Temple University, Philadelphia Ryan J. Vander Wielen is an associate professor of Political Science at Temple University, Philadelphia. His articles have been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, Legislative Studies Quarter, Public Choice, and Political Research Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The American Congress: modern trends
2. Representation and lawmaking in Congress: the constitutional and historical context
3. Congressional elections and policy alignments
4. Members, goals, resources, and strategies
5. Parties and leaders
6. The standing committees
7. The rules of the legislative game
8. The floor and voting
9. Congress and the president
10. Congress and the courts
11. Congress, lobbyists, and interest groups
12. Congress and budget politics.