Congress Reconsidered

by Dodd, Lawrence C.; Oppenheimer, Bruce Ian

• ISBN13: 9781568022031
• ISBN10: 1568022034
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Cq Pr

Table of Contents

Tables, Figures, and Boxes	vii	(4)
Contributors	xi	(4)
Preface	xv
Part I Patterns and Dynamics of Congressional Change	1	(80)
1. The U.S. Senate: Toward the Twenty-First Century	1	(28)
Norman J. Ornstein
Robert L. Peabody
David W. Rohde
2. Revolution in the House: Testing the Limits of Party Government	29	(32)
Lawrence C. Dodd
Bruce I. Oppenheimer
3. What the Public Dislikes About Congress	61	(20)
John R. Hibbing
Elizabeth Theiss-Morse
Part II Elections and Constituencies	81	(82)
4. Women and Blacks in Congress: 1870-1996	81	(19)
Carol M. Swain
5. Money and Motives: Spending in House Elections	100	(32)
Paul S. Herrnson
6. Voters, Candidates, and Issues in Congressional Elections	132	(31)
Robert S. Erikson
Gerald C. Wright
Part III Committee and Subcommittee Politics	163	(66)
7. Party Control of Committees in the Republican Congress	163	(30)
Steven S. Smith
Eric D. Lawrence
8. Congressional Tsunami? The Politics of Committee Reform	193	(19)
C. Lawrence Evans
Walter J. Oleszek
9. Institutional Change and Behaviorial Choice in House Committees	212	(17)
Richard L. Hall
Gary J. McKissick
Part IV Congressional Leadership and Party Politics	229	(64)
10. Party Leaders and the New Legislative Process	229	(17)
Barbara Sinclair
11. Partisanship, Bipartisanship, and Crosspartisanship in Congress Since the New Deal	246	(28)
Joseph Cooper
Garry Young
12. Congressional Caucuses in the 104th Congress	274	(19)
Susan Webb Hammond
Part V Congress, the Executive, and Public Policy	293	(78)
13. Assessing Congress's Role in the Making of Foreign Policy	293	(32)
Eileen Burgin
14. Centralization, Devolution, and Turf Protection in the Congressional Budget Process	325	(22)
James A. Thurber
15. The Contract with America: Origins and Assessments	347	(24)
John B. Bader
Part VI Congress and Political Change	371	(44)
16. Abdicating Congressional Power: The Paradox of Republican Control	371	(19)
Bruce I. Oppenheimer
17. Congress and the Emerging Order: Conditional Party Government or Constructive Partisanship?	390	(25)
Lawrence C. Dodd
Bruce I. Oppenheimer
Suggested Readings	415	(14)
Index	429