Congress and Its Members

20. Revised Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-0719-8193-1
Verlag: Sage Publications Inc Ebooks

Buch, Englisch, 624 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 770 g

Now in its 20th Edition, Congress and Its Members offers comprehensive and current coverage of the U.S. Congress and the legislative process by examining the tension between Congress as a lawmaking institution and as a collection of politicians constantly seeking?re-election.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schickler, Eric

Davidson, Roger H.

Lee, Frances E.

Oleszek, Walter J.

Curry, James M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I: In Search of the Two Congresses
Chapter 1: The Two Congresses
The Dual Nature of Congress
The Two Congresses in Comparative Context
Divergent Views of Congress
Chapter 2: Evolution of the Modern Congress
Antecedents of Congress
Congress in the Constitution
Institutional Evolution
Evolution of the Legislator’s Job
Conclusion
Part II: A Congress of Ambassadors
Chapter 3: Going For It: Recruitment and Candidacy
Formal Rules of the Game
Districting in the House
Becoming a Candidate
Nominating Politics
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Making It: The Electoral Game
Campaign Strategies
Campaign Resources
Campaign Techniques
Who Votes?
How Voters Decide
Election Outcomes
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Being There: Hill Styles and Home Styles
Hill Styles
Looking Homeward
Office of the Member Inc
Members and the Media
Conclusion
Part III: A Deliberative Assembly of One Nation
Chapter 6: Leaders and Parties in Congress
Leaders of the House
Leaders of the Senate
Selection of Leaders
Leadership Activities
Party Caucuses, Committees, and Informal Groups
Party Continuity and Change
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Committees: Workshops of Congress
The Purposes of Committees
Evolution of the Committee System
Types of Committees
The Assignment Process
Committee Leadership
Policy Making in Committee
Committee Staff
Committee Reform and Change
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Congressional Rules and Procedures
Introduction of Bills
Scheduling in the House
House Floor Procedures
Scheduling in the Senate
Senate Floor Procedures
Resolving House–Senate Differences
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Decision Making in Congress
The Power to Choose
Types of Decisions
Determinants of Voting
Legislative Bargaining
Conclusion
Part IV: Policy Making and Change in The Two Congresses
Chapter 10: Congress and the President
Constitutional Powers
Leadership
Sources of Legislative–Executive Conflict and Cooperation
The Balance of Power
Conclusion
Chapter 11: Congress and the Bureaucracy
Congress Organizes the Executive Branch
Congressional Control of the Bureaucracy
Conclusion
Chapter 12: Congress and the Courts
The Federal Courts
The Supreme Court as Policy Maker
Advice and Consent for Judicial Nominees
Conclusion
Chapter 13: Congress and Organized Interests
American Pluralism
Pressure Group Methods
Groups and the Electoral Connection
Groups, Lobbying, and Legislative Politics
Regulation of Lobbying
Conclusion
Chapter 14: Congress, Budgets, and Domestic Policy Making
Policy-Making Processes
Types of Domestic Policies
Characteristics of Congressional Policy Making
Congressional Budgeting
The 1974 Budget Act
Conclusion
Chapter 15: Congress and National Security Policies
Constitutional Powers
Who Speaks for Congress?
The National Interest: Types of National-Security Policies
Structural Policies
Strategic Policies
Crisis Policies: The War Powers
Conclusion
Part V: Conclusion
Chapter 16: The Two Congresses and the American People
Congress as the “Broken Branch”
Congress’s Vital Role
Twenty-First-Century Challenges
Conclusion
Appendix A: Party Control: Presidency, Senate, House, 1901–2023
Appendix B: Internships: Getting Experience on Capitol Hill
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Schickler, Eric
Eric Schickler is Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the

University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of three books that have won the

Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative politics: Disjointed Pluralism:

Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress (2001), Filibuster:

Obstruction and Lawmaking in the United States Senate (2006, with Gregory Wawro),

and Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (2016, with

Douglas Kriner; also a winner of the Richard E. Neustadt Prize for the best book on

executive politics). His book Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American

Liberalism, 1932–1965 was the winner of the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book

on government, politics, or international affairs published in 2016, and is co-winner of

the J. David Greenstone Prize for the best book in history and politics from the previous

two calendar years. He is also the co-author of Partisan Hearts and Minds, which

was published in 2002.

Lee, Frances E.
Frances E. Lee is professor of politics and public affairs in the School of Public and

International Affairs and the Department of Politics at Princeton University. She has

been a research fellow at the Brookings Institution and an APSA congressional fellow.

Most recently, she is co-author of The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a

Polarized Era (2020). She is also the author of Insecure Majorities: Congress and the

Perpetual Campaign (2016) and Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship

in the U.S. Senate (2009) and co-author, with Bruce I. Oppenheimer, of Sizing Up

the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (1999). Her articles have

appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies

Quarterly, and American Journal of Political Science, among others.

Davidson, Roger H.
Roger H. Davidson was professor emeritus of government and politics at the University

of Maryland and served as visiting professor of political science at the University of

California, Santa Barbara. He was a senior fellow of the National Academy of Public

Administration. During the 1970s, he served on the staffs of reform efforts in both the

House (Bolling-Martin Committee) and the Senate (Stevenson-Brock Committee).

For the 2001–2002 academic year, he served as the John Marshall chair in political

science at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. His books include Remaking

Congress: Change and Stability in the 1990s, co-edited with James A. Thurber (1995),

and Understanding the Presidency, 7th ed., co-edited with James P. Pfiffner (2013).

Davidson was co-editor with Donald C. Bacon and Morton Keller of The Encyclopedia

of the United States Congress (1995).

Curry, James M.
James M. Curry is professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. He is coauthor

of The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era (2020); author

of Legislating in the Dark: Information and Power in the House of Representatives (2015);

and winner of the Alan Rosenthal Prize, the E. E. Schattschneider Award, and the Carl

Albert Award. His research appears in the American Political Science Review, Journal of

Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly, among other outlets.

He received his Ph.D. in government and politics from the University of Maryland,

and he previously worked on Capitol Hill in the offices of Rep. Daniel Lipinski and the

House Appropriations Committee.

Oleszek, Walter J.
Walter J. Oleszek is a senior specialist in the legislative process at the Congressional

Research Service. He has served as either a full-time professional staff aide or consultant

to many major House and Senate congressional reorganization efforts beginning

with the passage of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970. In 1993, he served as

policy director of the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress. A former

adjunct faculty member at American University, Oleszek is a frequent lecturer to various

academic, governmental, and business groups. He is the author or co-author of several

books, including Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process, 11th ed. (2020),

and Congress Under Fire: Reform Politics and the Republican Majority, with C. Lawrence

Evans (1997).