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The Senate
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...
The House of Representatives
Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 30.00Think the House of Representatives is just a boring government body? Think again. This book offers historical proof that the House is anything but dull. It helps students learn how over the years, the House has been a center stage for controversy, scandals, and tremendous legislative victories. more...
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...
Legislative Drafter's Desk Reference
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2007; US$ 109.25The Legislative Drafters Desk Reference is a practical guide to the drafting of federal and state laws for law and public policy students, and legal, lobbying, and legislative professionals. It contains a treasure trove of information that sets forth solid drafting principles in language that is easy to understand. It offers an introduction to... 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...
Cycles of Spin
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 22.00Sellers marshals diverse evidence, resulting in this comprehensive and unprecedented examination of politicians' promotional campaigns and journalists' coverage of those campaigns. 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...
Army Relations with Congress
ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 56.00Relying on extensive candid interviews from members of Congress and staff on defense authorization committees and senior Army general officers, Scroggs provides a strong insider analysis with recommendations. He examines the impact of culture on the varying abilities of public agencies, specifically the Army, to pursue its organizational interests... 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...









