Critical Elections and Congressional Policy Making

This book argues that, despite the scholarly emphasis on 20th-century congressional history, it is necessary to study the nation's first 150 years in order to understand more fully the evolution and functioning of the modern Congress--a time when parties emerged, developed, realigned, and dissapeared; Congressional standing rules changed; the workload of Congress increased dramatically; and both houses grew greatly in size.

Summary

This text examines the House of Representatives during three periods of policy innovations: the Civil War, the 1890's and the New Deal. The author asserts that critical elections create conditions in the House that enable the majority party to legislate significant policy changes.

Product details

• Authors: Brady, David Brady, David W Brady, David W. Brady
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780804718400
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-1840-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 226 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Stanford Studies in the New Po; Stanford Studies in the New Political History; Stanford Studies in the New Po
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education