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The Contemporary Congress

by: Loomis,Burdett A.

The Contemporary Congress

by: Loomis,Burdett A.

ISBN 13:
9780495004240
ISBN 10:
0495004243
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 07/26/2005
Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Summary

THE CONTEMPORARY CONGRESS offers concise coverage of all the foundations of a course on Congress. From the underlying theory of representative democracy and the process of elections to committee dynamics and the legislative process on the House and Senate floor to the relationship between Congress and the Presidency under unified and divided party government, THE CONTEMPORARY CONGRESS includes a view into the rules, politics, and party strategy that determine the policy decisions made every day in the U.S. Congress, especially important in the contemporary era of strong Republican Party government.

Preface

About the Authors

xiii

The Drama of Representation

(15)

National Politics Comes Home: Pennsylvania's Thirteenth District, 1992-2006

(5)

Act I

(2)

Act II

(1)

Act III

(1)

The Beat Goes on: Pennsylvania's Thirteenth District, 1998-2006

(1)

The Centrifugal Congress

(1)

Representation and Collective Choice

(4)

Representation as Responsiveness

(1)

Deliberation

(1)

Making Decisions, Choosing Policies

(1)

The Contemporary Congress

(2)

Chapter Bibliography

(3)

Congressional Decentralization in Design and Evolution

(19)

The Framers Construct a Congress

(2)

The Early Congress: Organization and Tensions

(2)

Senate Individualism and House Fragmentation: 1830--1860

(1)

The Rise of the Modern Congress: 1860--1920

(4)

The House

(2)

The Senate

(1)

The Drift toward Decentralization

(1)

The Development and Decline of the Textbook Congress: 1920--1970

(2)

Reforming the Congress: The 1970s

(1)

The Democratic Postreform Congress: 1980--1994

(2)

The Republican Era, 1994-

(1)

The Congress over Time

(1)

Chapter Bibliography

(4)

The Changing Environment of Congressional Politics

(26)

Congress: The Permeable Branch

(18)

The Advocacy Explosion

(3)

Public Lobbying: International Trade, 1993--2005

(2)

The Policy Explosion

(1)

Table 3-1 Federal Spending, 1940-2005

(2)

Table 3-2 The Growth of Federal Regulation

(1)

The Budget: Wrestling with an 800-Pound Gorilla

(2)

Can't Get No Respect: The Unpopular Congress

(1)

Figure 3-1 Congressional Approval Ratings, 1990-2004

(1)

Table 3-3 High Approval For Members; Low Approval for Congress

(2)

Congress in Context

(2)

Chapter Bibliography

(6)

Congressional Elections: All for One and One for All?

(27)

Local Elections for a National Office

(7)

Geographic Constituencies

(2)

Figure 4-1 North Carolina's Twelfth Congressional District-- 1992 and 1998

(2)

The Other Constituencies: Behavior and Perception

(1)

Table 4-1 Changing Constituencies in a Single Congressional District: The Kansas Second, 1971--2005

(1)

Elections in a Careerist Congress

(3)

House Incumbents and the Structure of Competition

(1)

Increasing Margins and the ``Slurge''

(2)

Party, Money, Leadership, and Congressional Elections

(1)

The Lasting Impact of the Electoral Earthquake of 1994

(2)

Sources of Congressional Campaign Funding

(7)

Campaign Contributions and the Rise of PACs

(1)

Table 4-2 Political Action Committee Contributions to House Candidates 1990-2004

(1)

Rising Costs

(1)

Table 4-3 Average Campaign Expenditures in the House and Senate

(1)

Campaign Finance Reform

(3)

Local Campaigns for National Office: The Mix of Forces

(1)

Chapter Bibliography

(4)

Parties and Leadership: Capturing the Congress

(25)

The Congressional Party in the Twenty-first Century: A Return to Centralization

(9)

Table 5-1 The First and Last Congresses of the Twentieth Century

(1)

The Democratic Majority-Party Challenge---Moving from Divisions to Unity

(3)

Table 5-2 Party Unity Average Scores

(1)

Table 5-3 Proportion of Partisan Roll Calls

(1)

Party Leadership in the Republican Mold

(2)

A Decade of Republican Majority Control in the House 1994-

(3)

The Senate: Individual Power and the Role of the Party

102

(6)

Party Leadership in the Senate

103

(3)

Table 5-4 Senate and House Party Unity Scores: 1969--1972, 1989-1992, 1995-1998, 1999-2002, and 2003-2004

106

(2)

Party and the Limits of Centralization in the Congress

108

(1)

Chapter Bibliography

109

(4)

Presidential-Congressional Relations: Focus, Authority, and Negotiation

113

(18)

The President as Chief Legislator

116

(7)

Agenda Setting and the Prospects for Presidential Influence: It's All in the Timing

117

(1)

The Contexts of Presidential Influence

118

(1)

Table 6-1 Electoral, Partisan, and Popularity Context for Newly Elected Presidents, 1960-2000

119

(1)

Legislating: Presidential Tools in a Retail Politics Era

120

(1)

The Presidential Record

121

(2)

Budgetary Politics: Centralization through Constraint

123

(3)

Policy and Power under Divided and Unified Party Government

126

(2)

Chapter Bibliography

128

(3)

The Legislative Process and the Rules of the Game

131

(18)

Rules, Procedures, and the Legislative Process

132

(1)

The Legislative Paths in the House and Senate

133

(11)

The House

134

(1)

Figure 7-1 Two Regular Order Versions of the Legislative Process

135

(2)

Table 7-1 Restrictions on Amendments in the Democratic House, 1977-1994, and Restrictions on Amendments in the Republican House, 1995-2004

137

(3)

Table 7-2 Congress by the Numbers, 1991-2004

140

(1)

The Senate

141

(3)

Rules, Norms, and the Legislative Arena

144

(2)

Chapter Bibliography

146

(3)

Congressional Committees

149

(27)

Table 8-1 Standing Committees, 103rd, 104th, and 109th Congresses

150

(1)

Table 8-2 Partisan Memberships on Senate Committees

151

(2)

Table 8-3 Membership on House Agriculture Committee Subcommittees Dealing with Tobacco Issues

153

(1)

Committees over Time

154

(9)

Figure 8-1 Number of Congressional Standing Committees, 1789-2000

155

(2)

The Squeeze Play: Leaders and Members versus Committee Chairs in the House

157

(1)

Subcommittee Reforms

157

(1)

Democratic Caucus/Leadership Reforms

158

(1)

Table 8-4 Number of House and Senate Committees, Selected Congresses, 1955--2006

158

(1)

Preserving the Status Quo Structure in Senate Committees

159

(1)

The Republican Era: Reforming Committees and Controlling Them in the House and Senate

159

(4)

Different Committees and Their Value to Members

163

(2)

The Contingent Nature of Committee Power

165

(6)

Committee Power and Entrepreneurship: The Case of the House Energy and Commerce Committee

166

(1)

Thomas Bliley and the Commerce Committee

167

(2)

The Last Element of Committee Power: Conference Committees between the House and Senate

169

(2)

House and Senate Committees in a Partisan Era

171

(1)

Chapter Bibliography

172

(4)

The Individual Enterprise

176

(19)

The Legislator as Enterprise

177

(14)

Figure 9-1 Growth in Congressional Staff, 1891-2000

178

(1)

Figure 9-2 The Congressional Enterprise

179

(1)

The Personal Office

179

(2)

Table 9-1 Average 2000 Salaries for Staff Positions, House and Senate

181

(1)

Committees and Subcommittees

181

(2)

Enterprise and Influence: Two Illustrations

183

(1)

Special-Interest Caucuses

184

(2)

Table 9-2 Caucus Establishment, 1959--1996

186

(2)

Congressional Offices and Political Expenditures

188

(1)

Additional Enterprise Resources

189

(2)

The Congressional Enterprise: Blessing and Curse

191

(1)

Chapter Bibliography

192

(3)

The Competitive Congress: Centifugal Forces in a Partisan Era

195

(10)

The Oxymoronic Congress: Individualistic Partisanship

195

(1)

The Struggle to Govern and the Limits of Party

195

(3)

Figure 10-1 The Geographic Base of Partisanship

197

(1)

Congress in a Republican Era

198

(4)

Governing against the President

198

(2)

Governing with the President

200

(2)

Prospects for One-Party Domination in Congress over the Long Term

202

(1)

Chapter Bibliography

203

(2)

Useful Web Sites

205

(2)

Index

207

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