Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress

Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress
Author: Craig Volden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2014-10-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0521761522

This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.

Reed's Rules

Reed's Rules
Author: Thomas Brackett Reed
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1899
Genre: Parliamentary practice
ISBN:

The Pig Book

The Pig Book
Author: Citizens Against Government Waste
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2005-04-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780312343576

A compendium of the most ridiculous examples of Congress's pork-barrel spending.

The Broken Branch

The Broken Branch
Author: Thomas E. Mann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195368711

Two nationally renowned congressional scholars review the evolution of Congress from the early days of the republic to 2006, arguing that extreme partisanship and a disregard for institutional procedures are responsible for the institution's current state of dysfunction.