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Great theatre : the American Congress in the 1990s / edited by Herbert F. Weisberg, Samuel C. Patterson.

Title
Great theatre : the American Congress in the 1990s / edited by Herbert F. Weisberg, Samuel C. Patterson.
Publication
Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Patterson, Samuel C., 1931-
  • Weisberg, Herbert F.
Description
xviii, 317 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • United States. Congress
  • United States > Politics and government > 1993-2001
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-3o8) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Theatre in the round: congress in action / Herbert F. Weisberg and Samuel C. Patterson -- Representation in congress: line drawing and minorities / Kenny J. Whitby and Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. -- Unsympathetic audience: citizens' evaluations of congress / Samuel C. Patterson and David C. Kimball -- Back from intermission: the 1994 elections and the return to divided government / Dean Lacy -- Directing 535 leading men and leading ladies: party leadership in the modern congress / Paul S. Herrnson -- Little theatre: committees in congress / Tim Groseclose and David C. King -- The unfolding drama: party and ideology in the 104th house / Barry C. Burden and Aage R. Clausen -- The plot thickens: congress and the president / Barbara Sinclair -- Congress and the courts: a case of casting / Elliot E. Slotnick and Sheldon Goldman --
  • (cont.) Behind the scenes: the supreme court and congress in statutory interpretation / Lori Hausegger and Lawrence Baum -- Congress and foreign policy: a neglected stage / Randall B. Ripley -- "The play's the thing": congress and the future / Samuel C. Patterson and Herbert F. Weisberg
ISBN
  • 052158518X
  • 0521585252 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^97036637^
OCLC
37518812
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library