Is Congress Broken?
The Virtues and Defects of Partisanship and Gridlock
Making Congress Work, Again, Within the Constitutional SystemCongress for many years has ranked low in public esteem-joining journalists, bankers, and union leaders at the bottom of polls. And in recent years there's been good reason for the public disregard, with the rise of hyper-partisanship and the increasing inability of Congress to carry out its required duties, such as passing spending bills on time and conducting responsible oversight of the executive branch.Congress seems so dysfunctional that many observers have all but thrown up their hands in despair, suggesting that an apparently broken U.S. political system might need to be repl…
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Weitere Autoren: Pitney Jr., John (Hrsg.) / Schmitt, Gary J. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8157-3037-8
- EAN: 9780815730378
- Produktnummer: 22973420
- Verlag: Brookings Institution Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'452 KB
Über den Autor
William F. Connelly, Jr., is the John K. Boardman Politics Professor at Washington and Lee University. He is also founder and director of the university's Washington Term Program.John J. Pitney, Jr., is Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College. He previously served on the staff of Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) and the House Republican Policy Committee.Gary J. Schmitt is resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he directs the Program on American Citizenship. He previously served as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and executive director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
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