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The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress

The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress

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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
  • ISBN: 9780199650521
  • Published In: March 2013
  • Format: Paperback , 944 pages
  • Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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  • Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors.
  • Provides the key point of reference for anyone working in the area.

No legislature in the world has a greater influence over its nation's public affairs than the US Congress. The Congress's centrality in the US system of government has placed research on Congress at the heart of scholarship on American politics. Generations of American government scholars working in a wide range of methodological traditions have focused their analysis on understanding Congress, both as a lawmaking and a representative institution. The purpose of this volume is to take stock of this impressive and diverse literature, identifying areas of accomplishment and promising directions for future work. The editors have commissioned 37 chapters by leading scholars in the field, each chapter critically engages the scholarship focusing on a particular aspect of congressional politics, including the institution's responsiveness to the American public, its procedures and capacities for policymaking, its internal procedures and development, relationships between the branches of government, and the scholarly methodologies for approaching these topics. The Handbook also includes chapters addressing timely questions, including partisan polarization, congressional war powers, and the supermajoritarian procedures of the contemporary Senate. Beyond simply bringing readers up to speed on the current state of research, the volume offers critical assessments of how each literature has progressed - or failed to progress - in recent decades. The chapters identify the major questions posed by each line of research and assess the degree to which the answers developed in the literature are persuasive. The goal is not simply to tell us where we have been as a field, but to set an agenda for research on Congress for the next decade.

The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics.

 

Readership: Scholars and students of American politics and legislative studies.

Part I: Introduction
1: Eric Schickler and Frances E. Lee: Studying the Congress
2: Bruce Oppenheimer: Behavioral Approaches to the Study of Congress
3: Craig Volden and Alan Wiseman: Formal Approaches to the Study of Congress
4: Nolan McCarty: Measuring Legislative Preferences
5: Ross K. Baker: Touching the Bones: Interviewing and Direct Observational Studies of Congress
6: Ira Katznelson: Historical Approaches to the Study of Congress: Towards a Congressional Vantage on American Political Development
Part II: Elections
7: Jamie L. Carson and Jason M. Roberts: House and Senate Elections
8: Tracy Sulkin: Congressional Campaigns
9: Michael P. McDonald: Congressional Redistricting
10: Robin Kolodny: Campaign Finance in Congressional Elections
Part III: Representation and Responsiveness
11: Michele L. Swers and Stella M. Rouse: Descriptive Representation: Understanding the Impact of Identity on Substantive Representation of Group Interests
12: Frances E. Lee: Bicameral Representation
13: Stephen Ansolabehere and Philip Edward Jones: Dyadic Representation
14: Diana Evans: Pork Barrel Politics
15: David Brady: Public Opinion and Congressional Policy
16: John D. Griffin: Public Evaluations of Congress by
Part IV: Congressional Institutions and Procedures
17: Randall Strahan: Party Leadership
18: Larry Evans: Congressional Committees
19: Greg Wawro: The Supermajority Senate
20: by Gary Cox and Mathew McCubbins: Managing Plenary Time in Democratic Legislatures: The U.S. Congress in Comparative Context
21: Scott Adler: Congressional Reforms
22: John B. Gilmour: The Congressional Budget Process
Part V: Politics and Policymaking
23: Party Polarization by Brian F. Schaffner
24: Paul Quirk and William Bendix: Deliberation in Congress
25: Sean Theriault, Patrick Hickey and Abby Blass: Roll Call Votes
26: Beth Leech: Lobbying and Interest Group Advocacy
27: John Wilkerson and Barry Pump: The Ties that Bind: Coalitions in Congress
28: Sarah A. Binder: Legislative Productivity and Gridlock
Part VI: Congressional Development
29: Wendy J. Schiller: The Development of Congressional Elections
30: Jeff Jenkins: The Evolution of Party Leadership
32: by Eric Schickler: The Development of the Committee System
32: Douglas Dion: Majority Rule and Minority Rights
33: Richard Bensel: Sectionalism and Congressional Development
Part VII: Congress and the Constitutional System
34: B. Dan Wood: Congress & the Executive Branch: Delegation and Presidential Dominance
35: Linda L. Fowler: Congressional War Powers
36: Michael A. Bailey, Forrest Maltzman, and Charles R. Shipan: The Amorphous Relationship Between Congress and the Courts
Part VIII: Reflections
37: Morris Fiorina: Reflections on the Study of Congress, 1969-2009
38: David Mayhew: Theorizing about Congress
Index

Edited by Eric Schickler, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, and Frances E. Lee, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland

Eric Schickler is the author of Disjointed Pluralism: Institutional Innovation and the Development of the U.S. Congress (Princeton University Press, 2001) and co-author, with Greg Wawro, of Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate (Princeton University Press, 2006). Both books received APSA's Richard F. Fenno Award for the best book published on legislative politics. He is also co-author of Partisan Hearts and Minds (with Donald Green and Bradley Palmquist), which was published in 2002 (Yale University Press). He has authored or co-authored articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Studies in American Political Development, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Social Science History. He is Jeffrey and Ashley McDermott Chair in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Frances E. Lee is author of Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate (University of Chicago Press, 2009), coauthor of Sizing Up The Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation(University of Chicago Press 1999), and co-author of a comprehensive textbook on the U.S. Congress, Congress and Its Members (CQ Press). Her research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Her work has received national recognition, including the APSA's E. E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American Politics, the D. B. Hardeman Award presented by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation for the best book on a congressional topic, and the APSA's Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Award for the best book on legislative politics published. She is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland-College Park.

 

Contributors: 
Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley
Frances E. Lee, University of Maryland-College Park
Bruce Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University
Craig Volden, Ohio State University
Alan Wiseman, Ohio State University
Nolan McCarty, Princeton University
Ross K. Baker, Rutgers University
Ira Katznelson, Columbia University
Jamie L. Carson, University of Georgia
Jason M. Roberts, University of Minnesota
Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois
Michael P. McDonald, Brookings Institution
Robin Kolodny, Temple University
Michele L. Swers, Georgetown University
Stella M. Rouse, University of Maryland
Stephen Ansolabehere, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Philip Edward Jones, University of Delaware
Diana Evans, Trinity College, Hartford
David Brady, Stanford University
John D. Griffin, University of Notre Dame
Randall Strahan, Emory University
Larry Evans, The College of William and Mary
Greg Wawro, Columbia University
Gary Cox, University of California, San Diego
Mathew McCubbins, University of California, San Diego
Scott Adler, University of Colorado
John B. Gilmour, College of William and Mary
Brian F. Schaffner, University of Massachusetts
Paul Quirk, University of British Columbia
William Bendix, University of British Columbia
Sean Theriault, University of Texas
Patrick Hickey, University of Texas
Abby Blass, University of Texas
Beth Leech, Rutgers University
John Wilkerson, University of Washington
Barry Pump, University of Washington
Sarah A. Binder, George Washington University
Wendy J. Schiller, Brown University
Jeff Jenkins, University of Virginia
Douglas Dion, University of Iowa
Richard Bensel, Cornell University
B. Dan Wood, Texas A & M University
Linda L. Fowler, Dartmouth College
Michael A. Bailey, Georgetown University
Forrest Maltzman, George Washington University
Charles R. Shipan, University of Michigan
Morris Fiorina, Stanford University
David Mayhew, Yale University

"Outstanding Academic Titles 2012, as selected by CHOICE Magazine (December 2012)." - CHOICE

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