Call to Order: Floor Politics in the House and Senate

by Steven S. Smith

Book Overview

Congress is playing by new rules--a changing distribution of power in Congress, a more complex interplay of rules and procedures and policy, and a new role for floor politics in the legislative process. In Call to Order, Smith outlines how a fairly stable period of reform in the 1950s and the early 1960s erupted into a turbulent period of reform in the 1970s. New issues spawned a variety of organized interest groups, and these, coupled with growing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815780141
• ISBN13: 9780815780144
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.