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Stability and change in Congress

Title
  1. Stability and change in Congress / Barbara Hinckley.
Published by
  1. New York : Harper & Row, [1987], ©1988.
Author
  1. Hinckley, Barbara, 1937-

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Description
  1. xiv, 370 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. This book provides general background information to specific discussions of congressional elections. It integrates the theme of stability and change throughout and adds expanded discussions of congressional relations with the Presidency and the bureaucracy. Also new is the material on the range of policymaking cases and the trends in congressional elections, campaigns, and political action committees. ISBN 0-06-042849-X (pbk.): $18.50.
Subject
  1. United States. Congress
  2. USA Congress
  3. USA Präsident
  4. 1945-1989
  5. Politics and government
  6. Außenpolitik
  7. Bürokratie
  8. Parteiführer
  9. Politische Willensbildung
  10. Repräsentation Politik
  11. Wahl
  12. United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989
  13. United States
Contents
  1. Introduction -- Congress and its political environment -- Congressional elections -- Members and the job of representation -- Norms and the distribution of influence -- Committees and the distribution of influence -- The party leadership -- Floor decisions and roll call votes -- Congress and the presidency -- Congress and the bureaucracy -- Congress and foreign policy -- The range of policy-making -- Summary and application.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 342-359.