The imprint of congress /

"What kind of job has America's routinely disparaged legislative body actually done? In [this book, the author gives] historical analysis of the U.S. Congress's performance from the late eighteenth century to today, exploring what its lasting imprint has been on American politics and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mayhew, David R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Colección:Henry L. Stimson lectures, Yale University.
Temas:
United States. > Congress > History.
United States. > Congress
Legislators > United States > History.
Legislative power > United States.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Legislative power
Legislators
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Impulses and imprints
  • Building a state and a nation
  • Surges and their constraints
  • Depression and the welfare state
  • After World War II
  • The climate and the debt
  • Legitimacy, messiness, and reflections.

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