"This book provides the first historical interpretation of the congressional response to the entire Cold War. Using a wide variety of sources, including several manuscript collections opened specifically for this study, the book challenges the popular and scholarly image of a we…
"This book provides the first historical interpretation of the congressional response to the entire Cold War. Using a wide variety of sources, including several manuscript collections opened specifically for this study, the book challenges the popular and scholarly image of a we…
"This book advances our partisan theory and presents a series of empirical tests of that theory's predictions (pitted against others). It considers why procedural cartels form, arguing that agenda power is naturally subject to cartelization in busy legislatures. It argues that t…
Scholars of the U.S. House disagree over the importance of political parties in organizing the legislative process. On the one hand, non-partisan theories stress how congressional organization serves members' non-partisan goals. On the other hand, partisan theories argue that th…
"In The Whips, C. Lawrence Evans offers a comprehensive, systematic, and historical exploration of party coalition building and legislative strategy in the U.S. House and Senate, ranging from the relatively bipartisan, committee-dominated chambers of the 1950s to the highly pola…
"Drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, research at some two dozen archives, and interviews with former officials, David M. Barrett provides an unprecedented and often colorful account of relations between American spymasters and Capitol Hill. He chronicles the CI…
"Drawing on a wealth of newly declassified documents, research at some two dozen archives, and interviews with former officials, David M. Barrett provides an unprecedented and often colorful account of relations between American spymasters and Capitol Hill. He chronicles the CI…
Much of this nations political life and public policy have been shaped by a handful of powerful peoplethe leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives. Masters of the House identifies enduring patterns of House leadership, explaining the effects of such factors as party strength…
Much of this nation's political life and public policy have been shaped by a handful of powerful people - the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives. Masters of the House identifies enduring patterns of House leadership, explaining the effects of such factors as party stre…
by Roberts, Jason M., Smith, Steven S., Vander Wielen, Ryan J.
This reader compiles the best relevant scholarship on party and committee systems, leadership, voting, and floor activity to broaden and illuminate the key features of the text.
by Roberts, Jason M., Smith, Steven S., Vander Wielen, Ryan J.
by Roberts, Jason M., Smith, Steven S., Vander Wielen, Ryan J.
This reader compiles the best relevant scholarship on party and committee systems, leadership, voting, and floor activity to broaden and illuminate the key features of the text.
by Roberts, Jason M., Smith, Steven S., Vander Wielen, Ryan J.
This reader compiles the best relevant scholarship on party and committee systems, leadership, voting, and floor activity to broaden and illuminate the key features of the text.
