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The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress (Paperback)
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The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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No legislature in the world has a greater influence over its
nation's public affairs than the US Congress. The Congress's
centrality in the US system of government has placed research on
Congress at the heart of scholarship on American politics.
Generations of American government scholars working in a wide range
of methodological traditions have focused their analysis on
understanding Congress, both as a lawmaking and a representative
institution. The purpose of this volume is to take stock of this
impressive and diverse literature, identifying areas of
accomplishment and promising directions for future work. The
editors have commissioned 37 chapters by leading scholars in the
field, each chapter critically engages the scholarship focusing on
a particular aspect of congressional politics, including the
institution's responsiveness to the American public, its procedures
and capacities for policymaking, its internal procedures and
development, relationships between the branches of government, and
the scholarly methodologies for approaching these topics. The
Handbook also includes chapters addressing timely questions,
including partisan polarization, congressional war powers, and the
supermajoritarian procedures of the contemporary Senate. Beyond
simply bringing readers up to speed on the current state of
research, the volume offers critical assessments of how each
literature has progressed - or failed to progress - in recent
decades. The chapters identify the major questions posed by each
line of research and assess the degree to which the answers
developed in the literature are persuasive. The goal is not simply
to tell us where we have been as a field, but to set an agenda for
research on Congress for the next decade. The Oxford Handbooks of
American Politics are a set of reference books offering
authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of
scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a
particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General
Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists
in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not
just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars
critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions
in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference
for anyone working in American politics.
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