Congress and Its Members - Softcover

Davidson, Roger H.; Oleszek, Walter J.; Lee, Frances E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608716422 ISBN 13: 9781608716425

Publisher: CQ Press, 2011

Synopsis

Incorporating the crucial updates and new research you expect, the thirteenth edition of Congress and Its Members remains a trusted resource for introducing students to the legislative branch. As thousands of undergraduates have learned, focusing on Congress as not only a legislative body, but also as a group of reelection-minded politicians, is an extraordinarily effective way to understand the institution and the law-making process.

In addition to featuring new examples and cases drawn from recent congressional politics-including the battles over health care reform, financial regulations, economic stimulus, fiscal management, and tax policy-the authors also integrate new scholarship on representation, congressional elections, lobbying influence, and the relationship between Congress and the Court.

The thirteenth edition also features analysis of:

· the 2010 congressional campaigns and elections;

· party and leadership changes for the 112th Congress;

· executive-legislative relations under President Obama;

· new procedures in the House and Senate;

· budgeting in an era of huge deficits;

· the heightened importance of lobbyists in legislative policymaking;

· public attitudes about Congress as dysfunctional, even corrupt; and

· the courts and their impact on the interpretation of congressional statutes, the scope of congressional power, and the reach of statutory campaign finance regulations.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger H. Davidson is professor emeritus of government and politics at the University of Maryland, and has served as visiting professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. During the 2001–2002 academic year, he served as the John Marshall Chair in political science at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. His books include Remaking Congress: Change and Stability in the 1990’s, co-edited with James A. Thurber (1995), and Understanding the Presidency, Seventh Edition, co-edited with James P. Pfiffner (2012). Davidson is co-editor with Donald C. Bacon and Morton Keller of The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (1995).

About this edition

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1608716422
• ISBN 13: 9781608716425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 664