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Elbridge Gerry's Salamander
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 25.00The Supreme Court's reapportionment decisions, beginning with Baker v. Carr in 1962, had far more than jurisprudential consequences. They sparked a massive wave of extraordinary redistricting in the mid-1960s. State legislative and congressional districts were redrawn more comprehensively - by far - than at any previous time in our nation's history. more...
Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 32.00Using a series of case-studies of congressional reform legislation during the early twentieth century, Congress, Progressive Reform and the New American State explores the nature of progressivism and the processes of political change which resulted in the establishment of the modern American state. more...
Affirmative Advocacy
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 27.50The United States boasts scores of organizations that offer crucial representation for groups that are marginalized in national politics, from women to racial minorities to the poor. Here, in the first systematic study of these organizations, Dara Z. Strolovitch explores the challenges and opportunities they face in the new millennium, as waning... more...
Congressional Districts in the 2000s
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2003; US$ 281.75Vivid economic, demographic, and political profiles of all 435 districts. more...
Oversight
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 65.00Oversight answers the question of whether black and Latino legislators better represent minority interests in Congress than white legislators, and it is the first book on the subject to focus on congressional oversight rather than roll-call voting. In this important book, Michael Minta demonstrates that minority lawmakers provide qualitatively better... more...
The Last Great Senate
PublicAffairs 2012; US$ 19.99Journalists have called the U.S. Senate an empty chamber; politicians have lamented that the institution is broken?yet the Senate was once capable of greatness. Senators of the 1960s and ?70s overcame southern opposition to civil rights, passed Great Society legislation, and battled the executive branch on Vietnam, Watergate, and its abuses of power.... more...
The Congressman's Civil War
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 30.00In the historical literature of the American Civil War, the president, the generals, and the cabinet secretaries have won the war of words. Of the hundreds of men who served in the House of Representative during this great struggle, only a handful appear more...
Congress at the Grassroots
The University of North Carolina Press 2000; US$ 25.00However much politicians are demeaned and denounced in modern American society, our democracy could not work without them. For this reason, says Richard Fenno, their activities warrant our attention. In his pioneering book, Home Style , Fenno demonstrated that a close look at politicians at work in their districts can tell us a great deal about the... more...
The Politics and Law of Term Limits
Cato Institute 1994; US$ 1.99The pros and cons of the hottest political issue of the 90s. more...








