C. Lawrence Evans & Lawrence C. Dodd 
Congress Reconsidered 

Since its first edition,
Congress Reconsidered was designed to make available the best contemporary work from leading congressional scholars in a form that is both challenging and accessible to undergraduates.

 

With their
Twelfth Edition, Lawrence C. Dodd, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, and C. Lawrence Evans continue this tradition as their contributors focus on how various aspects of Congress have changed over time: C. Lawrence Evans partners with Wendy Schiller to discuss the U.S. Senate and the meaning of dysfunction; Molly E. Reynolds analyzes the politics of the budget and appropriations process in a polarized Congress; and Danielle M. Thomsen looks at the role of women and voter preferences in the 2018 elections. With a strong new focus on political polarization, this bestselling volume remains on the cutting edge with key insights into the workings of Congress.

Daftar Isi

Tables and Figures

Preface

Contributors

Part I: Patterns and Dynamics of Congressional Change

Chapter 1: The U.S. Senate and the Meaning of Dysfunction – C. Lawrence Evans and Wendy J. Schiller

Chapter 2: Lending and Reclaiming Power: Majority Leadership in the House From the 1950s to Trump – John H. Aldrich and David W. Rohde

Part II: Elections, Constituencies, and Representation

Chapter 3: Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Issues in Congressional Elections – Robert S. Erikson and Gerald C. Wright

Chapter 4: Partisanship, Money, and Competition: Elections and the Transformation of Congress Since the 1970s – Gary C. Jacobson

Chapter 5: Women Running, Women Winning: Voter Preferences in 2018 – Danielle M. Thomsen

Chapter 6: Black-Latino Relations in Congress: Examining Institutional Context and Inter-Minority Group Relations Further – Robert R. Preuhs and Rodney E. Hero

Part III: Parties and Polarization

Chapter 7: The Dynamics of Party Government in Congress – Steven S. Smith and Gerald Gamm

Chapter 8: House Parties, Divided: Intraparty Organization in the Contemporary Congress – Ruth Bloch Rubin

Chapter 9: The Struggle to Legislate in Polarized Times – Sarah Binder

Chapter 10: The War Over Judges in the Senate – Gregory Koger

Part IV: Congress and the Policy Process

Chapter 11: Enduring Continuities in Congressional Lawmaking – James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee

Chapter 12: Legislative Styles and the Dynamics of Congressional Behavior – Tracy Sulkin

Chapter 13: The Politics of the Budget and Appropriations Process in a Polarized Congress – Molly E. Reynolds

Chapter 14: Party, Ideology, and Legislative Effectiveness in the U.S. Senate – Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman

Part V: Congress in a Separation of Powers System

Chapter 15: Congressional Investigations in a Polarized Era Or Has Polarization (and Trump?) Broken the Investigative Check? – Douglas L. Kriner and Eric Schickler

Chapter 16: How Congressional Polarization Is Transforming the Separation of Powers – Nolan Mc Carty

Chapter 17: The 2020 Congressional Elections In a Time of COVID-19, Economic Turmoil, and Trump – Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer

Suggested Readings

Index

Tentang Penulis

Bruce I. Oppenheimer is professor of political science at Vanderbilt University and director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He has been a Brookings fellow in Governmental Studies (1970–1971) and an APSA congressional fellow (1974–1975). He is author of Oil and the Congressional Process: The Limits of Symbolic Politics (1974). His book Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (1999), cowritten with Frances Lee, was awarded the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation’s D. B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress. He is also the editor of U.S. Senate Exceptionalism (2002) and the author of numerous articles. His recent research focuses on Congress and energy policy and on variation in competition in open-seat House primaries.