Vital Statistics on Congress : 2001-2002

by Ornstein, Norman J.; Mann, Thomas E.; Malbin, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780844741680
• ISBN10: 084474168X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

Written by three of the nation's best-known and most respected political scientists, Vital Statistics on Congress, 2001-2002, is the definitive source of essential information for all who watch Congress -- as citizens, journalists, political scientists, students, lobbyists, and even as staff and members of the institution. The volume is an invaluable tool for observing and evaluating the changing shape of politics and the legislative branch of government. The eleventh edition is updated to include new statistical information on the 2000 elections and the 107th Congress. More than 100 tables and figures illustrate the dramatic changes taking place in Congress. In addition to the chapters on the members of Congress, elections, campaign finance, committees, the congressional staff, Congress's workload, budgeting, and voting alignments, this edition contains an introductory essay that describes Congress during three key eras over the past fifty years and identifies the major changes and patterns of stability in that period. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He is codirector, with Thomas E. Mann, of the AEI-Brookings Transition to Governing Project Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chairman and Senior Fellow in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution. With Norman J. Ornstein, he has codirected the AEI-Brookings Renewing Congress and Transition to Governing Projects Michael J. Malbin is executive director of the Campaign Finance Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute in Washington, D.C., and professor of political science at the State University of New York at Albany and director of its Washington Semester Program

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(30)
Members of Congress	31	(30)
Elections	61	(24)
Campaign Finance	85	(32)
Committees	117	(8)
Congressional Staff and Operating Expenses	125	(20)
Workload	145	(10)
Budgeting	155	(12)
Voting Alignments	167	(26)
Appendix	193	(40)
Index	233	(4)
About the Authors	237