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A Social Theory of Congress - Legislative Norms in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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A Social Theory of Congress - Legislative Norms in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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What is the role that norms play in the U.S. Congress? At a time of
unprecedented partisanship and high-profile breaches of legislative
norms in the modern Congress, the relationship between norms and
the functioning of the institution is a growing and pressing
concern. Despite the importance of the topic, recent scholarship
has not focused on congressional norms. Meanwhile, previous
research leaves open many relevant questions about the role of
norms in the Congress of the twenty-first century. A Social Theory
of Congress brings norms back in to the study of Congress by
defining what are legislative norms, identifying which norms
currently exist in the U.S. Congress, and examining the effects
that congressional norms have. This book provides a new research
approach to study congressional norms through a comprehensive
review of previous scholarship and a combination of interviews,
survey research, and analysis of member behavior. What's more, an
innovative theoretical framework - a social theory of Congress -
provides new perspectives in the study of legislatures and
political behavior. The findings are striking. Norms of cooperation
are surprisingly alive and well in an otherwise partisan Congress.
But norms of conflict are on the rise. In addition, norms of a
changing culture are affecting how members understand their role as
lawmakers and in their interactions among one another. Together,
these findings suggest that norms play an important role in the
functioning of the legislature and as norms evolve so too does the
performance of Congress in American democracy.
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