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In this sometimes shocking and always riveting book, a political correspondent for "The Washington Post" offers the startling story of the monumental ... More

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Peter Schweizer's "Throw Them All Out" exploded onto the political scene in November 2011, shocking the nation and shaking Washington to its core. ... More

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Using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left, "Republic, Lost" not only makes clear how the economy of influence defeats ... More

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The book that spells the end of Newt, revealing patently illegal crimes that should expel any speaker from the House.

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Dennis Thompson shows how Congress as an institution is posing new ethical challenges and how the complexity of the environment in which members work ... More

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Recent research on the U.S. House of Representatives largely focuses on the effects of partisanship, but the strikingly less frequent studies of the ... More

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In this insider's view of a corrupt system and his proposal to clean up campaign finance, Heftel cites examples of irregularities, names names in a ... More

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This book intends to communicate how the "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ("BCRA)has changed the playing field for congressional elections in some ... More

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This is the first comprehensive book on state legislative candidates in almost 30 years. Based on extensive interviews with over 600 candidates-- ... More

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In The Next American Revolution, Charles R. Hooper empowers the citizens of America with the information needed to demand congressional reform. Each ... More

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Explaining Congressional-Presidential Relations examines government activities involving direct interactions between presidents and Congress and ... More

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In this groundbreaking work, Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q Kelly draw on significant new data from congressional archives--gleaned from the papers of ... More

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The United States Senate, unlike the United States House of Representatives, is a place where political minorities and individual members hold great ... More

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Life After Reform is the first serious and dispassionate book about how politics will change under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. It will ... More

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Fundraising for the party has rapidly replaced more traditional criteria for advancement and other rewards in Congress

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This enlightening and accessible new book is a valuable resource for students, scholars, and anyone else who follows Congress, the policymaking ... More

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Party Influence in Congress challenges current arguments and evidence about the influence of parties in the U.S. Congress.

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In the wake of yet another disastrous year in American politics, two of the nation's foremost experts on Congress provide their brief, strongly ... More

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"Party Wars" is the first book to describe how the ideological gulf now separating the two major parties developed and how today's fierce partisan ... More

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The contributors to this book examine the prospects for unified government during the Clinton presidency and, looking to the future, discuss ... More

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How Congress Works and Why You Should Care is a concise introduction to the functions and vital role of the U.S. Congress by eminent former ... More

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With the benefit of an insider's perspective, distinguished former congressman Lee H. Hamilton argues that America needs a stronger Congress and a ... More

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"Many scholars believe that the framers of the Constitution intended Congress to be the preeminent branch of government. Indeed, no other legislature ... More

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This very accessible book examines theoretical arguments on the nature of representation, the election process, and leadership battles, with a sharp ... More

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This introductory text looks at the workings of the United States Congress, and uses the Republican period of ascendancy, which lasted from 1994 ... More

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