Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 1: New Perspectives on the History of Congress

by Mathew D. McCubbins

Book Overview

In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congressional organization. However, most of this research has focused on Congress in the twentieth century--especially the post-New Deal era--and the long history of Congress has been largely neglected. The contributors to this book demonstrate that this inattention to congressional history has denied us many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804745714
• ISBN13: 9780804745710
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 3.0" x 11.7"