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Congress and Its Members has always won over students by combining a wealth of material about Congress and the latest scholarship with a lively, engaging, approach that never talks down to readers. Davidson and Oleszek thoughtfully employ colorful examples, quotations, photos, and graphics to enliven and underscore the general points being made in the text.
Congress and Its Members
by Davidson, Roger H.; Oleszek, Walter J.Edition: 8th
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Pub. Date: 2002-01-01
Publisher(s): Congressional Quarterly Books(Ssd)
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Summary
This best-selling text offers much-needed perspective and context to help students follow fast-changing events taking place on Capitol Hill. Davidson and Oleszek reveal the inherent tension between Congress as a lawmaking institution and Congress as a collection of re-election-minded politicians.
Author Biography
Roger H. Davidson is professor emeritus of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently he is visiting professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For the 2001-2002 academic year, he serves as the John Marshall Chair in political science at the University of Debrecen, Hungary Walter J. Oleszek is senior specialist in American national government at the Congressional Research Service. He is an adjunct professor of political science at American University and lectures frequently on political affairs in the United States and abroad
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| In Search of the Two Congresses | |
| The Two Congresses | p. 3 |
| The Dual Nature of Congress | p. 4 |
| Divergent Views of Congress | p. 9 |
| Evolution of the Modern Congress | p. 13 |
| Antecedents of Congress | p. 13 |
| Congress in the Constitution | p. 17 |
| Institutional Evolution | p. 26 |
| Evolution of the Legislator's Job | p. 33 |
| Conclusion | p. 39 |
| A Congress of Ambassadors | |
| Going for It: Recruitment Roulette | p. 41 |
| Formal Rules of the Game | p. 42 |
| Districting in the House | p. 46 |
| Becoming a Candidate | p. 58 |
| Nominating Politics | p. 68 |
| The Money Factor | p. 70 |
| Conclusion | p. 83 |
| Making It: The Electoral Game | p. 85 |
| Campaign Strategies | p. 86 |
| Campaign Resources | p. 88 |
| Campaign Techniques | p. 96 |
| The Parallel Campaigns | p. 100 |
| Who Votes? | p. 101 |
| How Voters Decide | p. 104 |
| Election Outcomes | p. 116 |
| After the Election Is Over | p. 121 |
| Being There: Hill Styles and Home Styles | p. 123 |
| Hill Styles | p. 124 |
| Looking Homeward | p. 137 |
| Office of the Member, Inc. | p. 145 |
| Members and the Media | p. 151 |
| Conclusion | p. 156 |
| A Deliberative Assembly of One Nation | |
| Leaders and Parties in Congress | p. 159 |
| Leaders of the House | p. 160 |
| Leaders of the Senate | p. 173 |
| Selection of Leaders | p. 183 |
| Leadership Activities | p. 184 |
| Party Caucuses, Committees, and Informal Groups | p. 189 |
| Party Continuity and Change | p. 192 |
| Conclusion | p. 197 |
| Committees: Workshops of Congress | p. 199 |
| The Purposes of Committees | p. 200 |
| Evolution of the Committee System | p. 202 |
| Types of Committees | p. 203 |
| The Assignment Process | p. 209 |
| Committee Leadership | p. 217 |
| Policy Making in Committee | p. 217 |
| Committee Staff | p. 222 |
| Committee Reform and Change | p. 224 |
| Conclusion | p. 228 |
| Congressional Rules and Procedures | p. 231 |
| Introduction of Bills | p. 233 |
| Referral of Bills | p. 236 |
| Scheduling in the House | p. 238 |
| House Floor Procedures | p. 246 |
| Scheduling in the Senate | p. 250 |
| Senate Floor Procedures | p. 253 |
| Resolving House-Senate Differences | p. 257 |
| Conclusion | p. 260 |
| Decision Making in Congress | p. 263 |
| The Power to Choose | p. 264 |
| Types of Decisions | p. 265 |
| Determinants of Voting | p. 273 |
| Giving and Taking Cues | p. 282 |
| Legislative Bargaining | p. 284 |
| Conclusion | p. 289 |
| Policy Making and Change in the Two Congresses | |
| Congress and the President | p. 293 |
| The President as Legislator | p. 294 |
| Lobbying Congress | p. 308 |
| Sources of Legislative-Executive Cooperation | p. 312 |
| Sources of Legislative-Executive Conflict | p. 315 |
| The Balance of Power | p. 317 |
| Conclusion | p. 319 |
| Congress, the Bureaucracy, and the Courts | p. 321 |
| Congress Organizes the Executive Branch | p. 322 |
| Congressional Control of the Bureaucracy | p. 335 |
| Congress and the Courts | p. 342 |
| Conclusion | p. 346 |
| Congress and Organized Interests | p. 349 |
| A Nation of Joiners | p. 349 |
| Pressure Group Methods | p. 351 |
| Groups and the Electoral Connection | p. 357 |
| Groups and Legislative Politics | p. 361 |
| Informal Groups of Members | p. 363 |
| Regulation of Lobbying | p. 364 |
| Conclusion | p. 368 |
| Congress, Budgets, and Domestic Policy Making | p. 371 |
| Definitions of Policy | p. 371 |
| Stages of Policy Making | p. 372 |
| Types of Domestic Policies | p. 375 |
| Characteristics of Congressional Policy Making | p. 378 |
| Congressional Budgeting | p. 380 |
| The 1974 Budget Act | p. 386 |
| The Dawn of the Surplus Era? | p. 389 |
| Conclusion | p. 394 |
| Congress and National Security Policies | p. 397 |
| Constitutional Powers | p. 398 |
| Who Speaks for Congress? | p. 399 |
| Types of Foreign and National Security Policies | p. 401 |
| Structural Policies | p. 402 |
| Strategic Policies | p. 406 |
| Crisis Policies: The War Powers | p. 414 |
| Conclusion: Congress and Globalization | p. 418 |
| Conclusion | |
| The Two Congresses and the American People | p. 421 |
| Congress-as-Politicians | p. 422 |
| Congress-as-Institution | p. 426 |
| Into the Third Century | p. 430 |
| Reference Materials | p. 435 |
| Party Control: Presidency, Senate, House, 1901-2001 | p. 436 |
| The Partisan Landscape, 2000: Presidential Voting by Congressional District | p. 438 |
| Internships: Getting Experience on Capitol Hill | p. 440 |
| Notes | p. 442 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 483 |
| Index | p. 489 |
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