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Describes what Congress is and how it works.

From a wealth of professional experience the authors have compressed into a single volume a full account of how both Parliament and Congress work.

Diana Evans discusses the use of 'pork barrel projects' as a means of building support for legislation in Congress & shows how this form of government patronage, though widely reviled, is commonly used to ensure the progress of general interest legislation.

This timely book describes and explains the American people's alleged hatred of their own branch of government, the U.S. Congress. Intensive focus-group sessions held across the country and a specially designed national survey indicate that much of the negativity is generated by popular perceptions of the processes of governing visible in Congress. John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse argue that, although the public is deeply disturbed by debate,...

The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, it now has a reputation as a partisan, dysfunctional chamber. What happened to the house that forged American history's great compromises? In this work, the authors, provide an insider's history of the United States Senate. One a historian emeritus of the Senate, and the other a former chief congressional correspondent for Time magazine, integrate...

The shaping of Fulbright's views -- Public service, 1942-1959 -- Public service, 1959-1963 -- Myths old and new -- Fulbright's dissent, 1965-1966 -- The limitationist critique and the end of the Johnson consensus -- Fulbright in the Nixon years -- Autumnal perspectives.

"Tracing the ways in which Congress has changed and adapted over two centuries to remain close and responsive to the people, the author addresses the question of whether some form of direct democracy will supplant representative, deliberative government in the United States. He sets the stage by covering key moments in our democratic history, from the constitutional convention and debate over the Bill of Rights, through debates over slavery petitions...

The invention of the United States Senate was the most complicated and confounding achievement of the Constitutional Convention. Although much has been written on various aspects of Senate history, this is the first book to examine and link the three central components of the Senate's creation: the theoretical models and institutional precedents leading up to the Constitutional Convention the work of the Constitutional Convention on both the composition...