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Congressional Roll Call 2002
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... more...
The Social and the Symbolic
SAGE India 2007; US$ 35.95This book argues that communication an exchange of symbols is the essence of society and that this exchange is the foundation on which the human collective is based. It explores how the collective sense of the self is defined either with reference to, or in defiance of, dominant existing traditions. The various essays highlight the links... more...
Congressional Representation and Constituents
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 38.50The U.S. House of Representatives has been frozen at 435 members for almost a century, and in that time the nation?s population has grown by more than 200 percent. With the number of citizens represented by each House member now dramatically larger, is a major consequence of this historical disparity a diminished quality of representation? Brian... more...
Filibustering
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 24.00In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn’t always the case. Both citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislative process as a game played by the rules in which votes are the critical commodity—the... more...
What the Anti-Federalists Were For
University of Chicago Press 2008; 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... more...
The Children Who Ran for Congress
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 45.00Each year, thousands of Americans and international tourists visit the Capitol building in Washington, DC. These visitors view the activity on the House and Senate floor from the galleries and see pages darting back and forth, but what are they doing and why are teenagers working in the Capitol building? more...
Congress Online
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 47.95While more than a million e-mails clog the inboxes of Congress each day, some legislators can't even find their own websites without the help of their staffers. In fact, laptops aren't even allowed on the floor of the House or Senate. But, as Dennis W. Johnson demonstrates in Congress Online, there are some savvy legislators who are taking advantage... more...
Who Speaks for the Poor
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95This book addresses the central question of how the interests of the poor gain representation in the political process by examining the interest group system. more...
Legislative Learning
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Barnett shows how political environments can produce legislators who place a premium on their policy-making goals through a nuanced exploration of factors undergirding member perceptions, policy ambitions, class cohesion, and legislative learning. more...
Like No Other Time
Crown Publishing Group 2003; US$ 14.00Tom Daschle, the Majority Leader of the historic 107th Senate, presents a candid insider?s account of the workings of the U.S. government during two of the most tumultuous years in the nation?s history. The 107th Congress faced a time like no other in the life of the nation. This was the era of the first presidential election to be decided by the... more...









