The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress
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Product details:
- Edition number Reprint
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 March 2013
- ISBN 9780199650521
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages942 pages
- Size 247x171x53 mm
- Weight 1638 g
- Language English 0
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The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century. With engaging, new contributions from the major figures in the field The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress provides the key point of reference for anyone working in American Politics today.
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No legislature in the world has a greater influence over its nation's public affairs than the US Congress. The Congress's centrality in the US system of government has placed research on Congress at the heart of scholarship on American politics. Generations of American government scholars working in a wide range of methodological traditions have focused their analysis on understanding Congress, both as a lawmaking and a representative institution. The purpose of this volume is to take stock of this impressive and diverse literature, identifying areas of accomplishment and promising directions for future work. The editors have commissioned 37 chapters by leading scholars in the field, each chapter critically engages the scholarship focusing on a particular aspect of congressional politics, including the institution's responsiveness to the American public, its procedures and capacities for policymaking, its internal procedures and development, relationships between the branches of government, and the scholarly methodologies for approaching these topics. The Handbook also includes chapters addressing timely questions, including partisan polarization, congressional war powers, and the supermajoritarian procedures of the contemporary Senate. Beyond simply bringing readers up to speed on the current state of research, the volume offers critical assessments of how each literature has progressed - or failed to progress - in recent decades. The chapters identify the major questions posed by each line of research and assess the degree to which the answers developed in the literature are persuasive. The goal is not simply to tell us where we have been as a field, but to set an agenda for research on Congress for the next decade.
The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics.
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Table of Contents:
Part I: Introduction
Studying the Congress
Behavioral Approaches to the Study of Congress
Formal Approaches to the Study of Congress
Measuring Legislative Preferences
Touching the Bones: Interviewing and Direct Observational Studies of Congress
Historical Approaches to the Study of Congress: Towards a Congressional Vantage on American Political Development
Part II: Elections
House and Senate Elections
Congressional Campaigns
Congressional Redistricting
Campaign Finance in Congressional Elections
Part III: Representation and Responsiveness
Descriptive Representation: Understanding the Impact of Identity on Substantive Representation of Group Interests
Bicameral Representation
Dyadic Representation
Pork Barrel Politics
Public Opinion and Congressional Policy
Public Evaluations of Congress by
Part IV: Congressional Institutions and Procedures
Party Leadership
Congressional Committees
The Supermajority Senate
Managing Plenary Time in Democratic Legislatures: The U.S. Congress in Comparative Context
Congressional Reforms
The Congressional Budget Process
Part V: Politics and Policymaking
Party Polarization by Brian F. Schaffner
Deliberation in Congress
Roll Call Votes
Lobbying and Interest Group Advocacy
The Ties that Bind: Coalitions in Congress
Legislative Productivity and Gridlock
Part VI: Congressional Development
The Development of Congressional Elections
The Evolution of Party Leadership
The Development of the Committee System
Majority Rule and Minority Rights
Sectionalism and Congressional Development
Part VII: Congress and the Constitutional System
Congress & the Executive Branch: Delegation and Presidential Dominance
Congressional War Powers
The Amorphous Relationship Between Congress and the Courts
Part VIII: Reflections
Reflections on the Study of Congress, 1969-2009
Theorizing about Congress
Index
