Congress Reconsidered

by Dodd, Lawrence C.

• ISBN13: 9781568028590
• ISBN10: 1568028598
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-30
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	vii
Contributors	xi
Preface	xvii
Prologue: Perspectives on the 2004 Congressional Elections	xxi
Part I Patterns and Dynamics of Congressional Change
1. The New World of U.S. Senators	1	(22)
Barbara Sinclair
2. A Decade of Republican Control: The House of Representatives, 1995-2005	23	(32)
Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer
3. What the American Public Wants Congress to Be	55	(22)
John R. Hibbing and Christopher W. Larimer
Part II Elections and Constituencies
4. Voters, Candidates, and Issues in Congressional Elections	77	(30)
Robert S. Erikson and Gerald C. Wright
5. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act and Congressional Elections	107	(28)
Paul S. Herrnson
6. Deep Red and Blue Congressional Districts: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Party Competitiveness	135	(24)
Bruce I. Oppenheimer
7. Keystone Reconsidered	159	(22)
Morris P. Fiorina
Part III Parties and Committees
8. The Dynamics of Party Government in Congress	181	(26)
Steven S. Smith and Gerald Gamm
9. The House Leadership in an Era of Partisan Warfare	207	(20)
Eric Schickler and Kathryn Pearson
10. Obstruction and Leadership in the U.S. Senate	227	(22)
C. Lawrence Evans and Daniel Lipinski
11. Congressional Committees in a Partisan Era	249	(22)
John H. Aldrich and David W Rohde
12. The (Dis)Integration of the House Appropriations Committee: Revisiting The Power of the Purse in a Partisan Era	271	(26)
Joshua B. Gordon
Part IV Congress and Public Policy
13. Congress and the Politics of Judicial Appointments	297	(22)
Sarah A. Binder and Forrest Maltzman
14. The Politics of Taxing and Spending in Congress: Ideas, Strategy, and Policy	319	(24)
Catherine E. Rudder
15. Congress and Policymaking in an Age of Terrorism	343	(20)
Donald R. Wolfensberger
Part V Congress and Political Change
16. From Congressional to Presidential Preeminence: Power and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century America and Today	363	(32)
Joseph Cooper
17. African Americans and the New Politics of Inclusion: A Representational Dilemma?	395	(16)
Kerry L. Haynie
18. Re-Envisioning Congress: Theoretical Perspectives on Congressional Change-2004	411	(36)
Lawrence C. Dodd
Suggested Readings	447	(16)
Index of Scholars	463	(6)
Subject Index	469