The broken branch : how Congress is failing America and how to get it back on track /

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Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-neede...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mann, Thomas E.
Corporate Authors: Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Other Authors: Ornstein, Norman J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series:Institutions of American democracy series.
Subjects:
United States. > Congress.
United States. > Congress > Reform.
United States. > Congress
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Legislative bodies > Reform
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The first branch of government : theory and practice
  • The seeds of the contemporary problem, 1969-1994
  • A decade of Republican control
  • Institutional decline
  • The case of continuity
  • Conclusion.

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