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Stability and change in Congress

Title: Stability and change in Congress / Barbara Hinckley.
Author: Hinckley, Barbara, 1937-
Publication: New York : Harper & Row, [1987], ©1988.

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Description

xiv, 370 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This book provides general background information to specific discussions of congressional elections. It integrates the theme of stability and change throughout and adds expanded discussions of congressional relations with the Presidency and the bureaucracy. Also new is the material on the range of policymaking cases and the trends in congressional elections, campaigns, and political action committees. ISBN 0-06-042849-X (pbk.): $18.50.

Subject

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 342-359.

Contents

Introduction -- Congress and its political environment -- Congressional elections -- Members and the job of representation -- Norms and the distribution of influence -- Committees and the distribution of influence -- The party leadership -- Floor decisions and roll call votes -- Congress and the presidency -- Congress and the bureaucracy -- Congress and foreign policy -- The range of policy-making -- Summary and application.

ISBN

006042849X
9780060428495

LCCN

87018439

OCLC

ocm16228144
16228144
SCSB-1728628

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library