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Norms play an important role in the functioning of the U.S. Congress. The first book-length treatment of the topic in over fifteen years, A Social Theory of Congress addresses what are norms, what congressional norms exist, and what effects norms have, and adds a new theoretical perspective to consider Congress.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Bringing Norms Back into the Study of Congress
Chapter 2: A Constructivist Approach to Congressional Norms
Chapter 3: Historical Norms and the Modern Congress: A Survey
Chapter 4: It Could Be Worse: Enduring Norms of Cooperation
Chapter 5: Age of Resistance: Emerging Norms of Conflict
Chapter 6: Out of the Madmen Era into the New: Norms of a Changing Culture
Chapter 7: Between Cooperation and Conflict
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By Brian Alexander
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Norms play an important role in the functioning of the U.S. Congress. The first book-length treatment of the topic in over fifteen years, A Social Theory of Congress addresses what are norms, what congressional norms exist, and what effects norms have, and adds a new theoretical perspective to consider Congress.
