Suchergebnisse

Dewhirst reviews 'Lobbying Together: Interest Group Coalitions in Legislative Politics' by Kevin W. Hula.

Dewhirst reviews 'The Politics of News, the News of Politics' edited by Doris Graber, Denis McQuail, and Pippa Norris.

Dewhirst reviews 'The American Presidency under Siege' by Gary L. Rose.

'Revolving Gridlock: Politics and Policy from Carter to Clinton' by David W. Brady and Craig Volden is reviewed.

This paper explores whether committees or their subcommittees dominate policy making in the standing committees of the House of Representatives. Such a research question falls within a tradition of inquiry initiated more than a century ago when Woodrow Wilson argued that Congressional government was ultimately committee government. However, more recent scholars have begun speculating that committees have declined in influence in favor of subcommittees. The most extreme dimension of this viewpoint has even maintained that congressional government has become subcommittee government.

The politics of the policymaking process in a time of hyperpartisanship / Sunil Ahuja and Robert E. Dewhirst -- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (2009) / Michelle L. Wade -- The struggle to repeal don't ask, don't tell (2010) / Sean D. Foreman -- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) / Douglas M. Brattebo -- Higher Education Opportunity Act (2008) / Sunil Ahuja -- Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act and Citizens United v. FEC (2002, 2010) / Peter J. Bergerson, Margaret E. Banyan, Ashley Skalecki, and Aleea L. Perry -- Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) / Marcia L. Godwin with Shandra L. McDonald -- The USA Patriot Act (2001) / Kevin N. Buterbaugh -- Evolving lessons of lawmaking in a dynamic system / Robert E. Dewhirst and Sunil Ahuja.

Congress occupies a central place in the U.S. political system. Its reach into American society is vast and deep. Overtime, the issues it has confronted have increased in both quantity and complexity. At the beginning, Congress dealt with a handful of matters, whereas today it has its hands in every imaginable aspect of life. It has attempted to meet these challenges and has changed throughout the course of its history, prodded by factors both external and internal to the institution. The essays in this volume argue therefore that as society changed throughout the twentieth century, Congress responded to those changes.

The Roads to Congress 2010 follows the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The book provides an array of case studies of important 2010 congressional races which collectively will give college undergraduate students a compelling narrative explanation of America's electoral process and the keys to winning vital elections