Description: Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress The Lawmakers This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means. Craig Volden (Author), Alan E. Wiseman (Author) 9780521152266, Cambridge University Press Paperback / softback, published 27 October 2014 260 pages 22.6 x 15 x 2.5 cm, 0.36 kg 'By devising and applying a thoughtful new measure of legislative effectiveness, this landmark study fundamentally recasts methodological individualism. Members of Congress are certainly single-minded seekers of re-election. But they are also lawmakers. The elegance of Volden and Wiseman's reframing will change how we view Congress and parliamentary skill - and quite possibly restore our faith in Congress. Their book richly deserves a place in undergraduate and graduate courses on Congress, leadership, and methods.' Rick Valelly, Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College 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. 1. Introduction 2. Measuring legislative effectiveness 3. The keys to majority-party effectiveness in Congress 4. A tale of three minorities 5. Gridlock and effective lawmaking, issue by issue 6. The habits of highly effective lawmakers 7. The future of legislative effectiveness. Subject Areas: Constitution: government & the state [JPHC]
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BIC Subject Area 1: Constitution: government & the state [JPHC]
Book Title: Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress
ISBN: 0521152267
Publication Date: 27/10/2014
Item Depth: 25
Number of Pages: 260 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: the Lawmakers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Government
Item Height: 226 mm
Item Weight: 360 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman
Item Width: 150 mm
Format: Paperback
