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The Classical Foundations of the American Constitutionby David J. Bederman
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 36.00This book offers fresh insights on how the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution were influenced by classical political theory and ancient history. more...
The Senateby Janet Anderson
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 30.00The story of the United States Senate is more than the description of the powers assigned to the upper house of Congress. This work shows how these powers are considerable, including the making of laws to govern the United States in partnership with the House of Representatives. more...
Congressional Roll Call 2002by CQ Press
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2003; US$ 48.30CQ Presss Congressional Roll Call continues to be the definitive reference source of congressional voting information for students, scholars, political professionals, and all citizens who want to be informed about their representatives voting records. Congressional Roll Call 2002 provides an objective, authoritative member-by-member survey and analysis of every roll call vote taken in the House and Senate during 2002 with the best summaries of the bills available anywhere. A compilation of the famed CQ Almanac, this precise resource will provide the researcher with all the details on 2002 voting. more...
Why Not Parties?by Nathan W. Monroe; Jason M. Roberts; David W. Rohde
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 24.00Recent research on the U.S. House of Representatives largely focuses on the effects of partisanship, but the strikingly less frequent studies of the Senate still tend to treat parties as secondary considerations in a chamber that gives its members far more individual leverage than congressmen have. In response to the recent increase in senatorial partisanship, Why Not Parties? corrects this imbalance with a series of original essays that focus exclusively on the effects of parties in the workings of the upper chamber. Illuminating the growing significance of these effects, the contributors explore three major areas, including the electoral foundations of parties, partisan procedural advantage, and partisan implications for policy.... more...
Beyond Ideologyby Frances E. Lee
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 22.00The congressional agenda, Frances Lee contends, includes many issues about which liberals and conservatives generally agree. Even over these matters, though, Democratic and Republican senators tend to fight with each other. What explains this discord? Beyond Ideology argues that many partisan battles are rooted in competition for power rather than disagreement over the rightful role of government. The first book to systematically distinguish Senate disputes centering on ideological questions from the large proportion of them that do not, this volume foregrounds the role of power struggle in partisan conflict. Presidential leadership, for example, inherently polarizes legislators who can influence public opinion of the president... more...
What the Anti-Federalists Were Forby Herbert J. Storing
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 15.00The Anti-Federalists, in Herbert J. Storing's view, are somewhat paradoxically entitled to be counted among the Founding Fathers and to share in the honor and study devoted to the founding. "If the foundations of the American polity was laid by the Federalists," he writes, "the Anti-Federalist reservations echo through American history; and it is in the dialogue, not merely in the Federalist victory, that the country's principles are to be discovered." It was largely through their efforts, he reminds us, that the Constitution was so quickly amended to include a bill of rights. Storing here offers a brilliant introduction to the thought and principles of the Anti-Federalists as they were understood by themselves and by other men and women... more...
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