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On Capitol Hill - The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000 (Paperback, New)
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On Capitol Hill - The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000 (Paperback, New)
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Thirty years after the "Watergate Babies" promised to end
corruption in Washington, Julian Zelizer offers the first major
history of the demise of the committee-era Congress and the rise of
the contemporary legislative branch. Based on research in more than
a hundred archival collections, this book tackles one of the most
enduring political challenges in America: barring a wholesale
revolution, how can we improve our representative democracy so as
best to fulfill the promises of the Constitution? Whereas popular
accounts suggest that major scandals or legislation can transform
government institutions, Zelizer shows that reform is messy, slow,
and involves many institutions coming together at the right time.
The short period of reform in the 1970s--one that rivaled the
Progressive Era--revolved around a coalition that had worked for
decades, a slow reconfiguration of the relationship among political
institutions, shifts in the national culture, and the ability of
reformers to take advantage of scandals and elections. Zelizer
presents a new look at the origins of the partisanship and scandal
warfare that characterize today's politics. The book also offers a
warning to the next generation of reformers by showing how a new
political environment can radically transform the political impact
of government reforms, as occurred when the conservative
movement--during its rise to power in recent decades--took
advantage of reforms that had ended the committee era. Julian
Zelizer teaches political history at Boston University. His book,
Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975
(Cambridge, 1999), was awarded the Organization of American
Historian's 1998 D.B. Hardeman Prize.He is the co-editor of The
Democratic Experiment (Princeton University Press, 2003) and the
editor of The American Congress: The Building of Democracy
(Houghton-Mifflin, 2005).
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