How Congress Evolves
Social Bases of Institutional Change
From the end of the New Deal until quite recently, the U.S. House of Representatives was dominated by a conservative coalition that thwarted the Democratic majority and prevented the enactment of measures proposed by a succession of liberal Presidents. Today Presidents aren't necessarily liberal and the House of Representatives is not necessarily the graveyard of presidential proposals. What happened? Congress evolved. It all began with airconditioning.In this entertaining tale of one of our most august institutions, Nelson Polsby describes how the Democratic majority finally succeeded in overcoming the conservative coalition, changing the Ho…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-534607-7
- EAN: 9780195346077
- Produktnummer: 13917998
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'744 KB
- Abbildungen: 10 line illus.
Über den Autor
Nelson Polsby is Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught American politics and government since 1967. A close Congress watcher for more than 40 years, he is the author of, among others, Congress and the Presidency, and Presidential Elections (with Aaron Wildavsky, 10th edition.) He is editor of the Annual Review of Political Science and writes often for the Op-ed pages of the LA Times, Boston Globe, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.
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