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Total Lobbying
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 25.00Offers an accessible overview of the role of lobbying in American politics. It draws upon extant research and original data gathered from interviews with numerous lobbyists across the United States. It describes how lobbyists do their work within all branches of government, at the national, state, and local levels. more...
Institutions of American Democracy - The Legislative Branch
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 29.99Offers a collection of essays examining the history, identity, roles, and future of the Legislative Branch in American democracy and the dynamic between the other branches of government, and discusses possible measures for reform. more...
Party Influence in Congress
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 22.00Party Influence in Congress challenges current arguments and evidence about the influence of parties in the U.S. Congress. more...
Race and Redistricting in the 1990s
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 39.00A portrait of how the 1990s round of redistricting treated the racial and linguistic minorities that had been given special protections by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, primarily African-Americans, but also Native Americans, Asian-Americans, and those of Spanish heritage. Throughout the volume, the primary focus is on the practical politics of redistricting... more...
Congress and Policy Change
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 48.00This book is about congressional policy making, and particularly processes by which congressional policy changes ? and does not change. At times in our history Congress has been a policy initiator, at others it has been the bastion of resistance to new directions of government action. It reflects the will of the citizenry at times, while at others... more...
Setting the Agenda
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 25.00Demonstrates that the majority party seizes agenda control at nearly every stage of the legislative process. more...
Congress Behaving Badly
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 45.00The climate of partisanship and incivility in Congress has steadily worsened since the 1980s. Polarization between congressional factions now paralyzes the legislative process and hobbles democracy. more...
Party Polarization in Congress
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00Theriault examines how Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill have become polarized since the early 1970s. more...
Turf Wars
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 25.00For most bills in American legislatures, the issue of turf—or which committee has jurisdiction over a bill—can make all the difference. Turf governs the flow and fate of all legislation. In this innovative study, David C. King explains how jurisdictional areas for committees are created and changed in Congress. Political scientists have... more...
Public Interest Group Profiles 2006-2007
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2006; US$ 270.25Now in its twelfth edition, Public Interest Group Profiles places the information you need about Americas most influential public advocacy groups at your fingertips. Rather than searching through dozens of documents, databases, or Web sites, you can turn to one trusted and authoritative source for vital information such as: assessments of group... more...









