Institutions of American Democracy - The Legislative Branch

DIRECTORY OF CONTRIBUTORS GENERAL INTRODUCTION: The Legislative Branch as an Institution of American Constitutional Democracy, Jaroslav Pelikan INTRODUCTION: Congress and American Democracy: Institutions and Performance, Paul J. Quirk and Sarah A. Binder SECTION I: IDEALS AND DEVELOPMENT 1. Congress and the Constitutional System, Charles Stewart III 2. Institutional Development of Congress, Eric Shickler 3. Actions in the Public Square, David R. Mayhew SECTION II: ELECTIONS AND REPRESENTATION 4. Modern Campaigns and Representation, Gary C. Jacobson 5. Elections, Parties, and Governance, Sarah A. Binder 6. Representing Racial and Ethnic Minorities, David T. Canon SECTION III: STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES 7. Committees and Policy Formulation, David W. Rohde 8. Parties and Leadership in the House, Barbara Sinclair 9. Parties and Leadership in the Senate, Steven S. Smith SECTION IV: POLICY AND PERFORMANCE 10. Interests, Constituencies, and Policy Making, Frances E. Lee 11. Deliberation and Decision Making, Paul J. Quirk 12. Foreign Affairs and War, Christopher J. Deering 13. Budgets and Fiscal Policy, Eric Patashnik 14. Advice and Consent: Cooperation and Conflict in the Appointment of Federal Judges, Forrest Maltzman 15. Congress and the Bureaucracy, Charles R. Shipan SECTION V: ASSESSMENTS AND PROSPECTS 16. Images of Congress, John R. Hibbing 17. Politics of Congressional Reform, C. Lawrence Evans 18. Congress and American Democracy: Assessing Institutional Performance, Paul J. Quirk and Sarah Binder APPENDIX INDEX