Product Description: Vital Statistics on Congress remains the quintessential source of authoritative information on America's legislature. This important series tracks the elements that define and describe Congress in the post–World War II era, and in this new edition, three of America's most esteemed political analysts extend their examination through the 109th Congress...read more

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The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (formerly known as McCain-Feingold) is the most important federal campaign finance law in decades. Whether the law will achieve its intended purposes, what it will mean for the parties and interest groups, and how it will affect elections--all are hotly contested issues in news columns and courtroom depositions. This book is the first serious and dispassionate attempt to think about the effect of this law since it was passed. It presents the research and early conclusions of political scientists who were brought together by the nonpartisan Campaign Finance Institute to think about how the new law is--and is not--likely to change politics. The authors do not share a common political outlook, or even a common perspective about campaign finance reform. What they do share are reputations for being among the country's best scholars of money and politics. This is a book that students and practitioners of politics will not want to miss, especially in view of the recent Supreme Court decision.

Product Description: Vital Statistics on Congress is the definitive source of essential information for all who watch Congress. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This source offers information to the reader who watches Congress, as citizen, journalist, political scientist, student, lobbyist, and even as staff and member of the institution itself. It covers more than 100 topics including the internal structure and campaign and election statistics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For more than twenty-five years, campaign finance reform has been based on assumptions that no longer match the realities of modern campaigning. Despite this, many of the supposedly new proposals on the national agenda continue to be based on the old set of assumptions and to produce stalemate...read more

Product Description: In the wake of the Republican takeover of both houses of Congress in 1994 and the accompanying promises of fundamental change, how does today's Congress differ from its predecessors in its membership, its political orientation, and its performance?To answer this question, this edition includes new statistical information on the 1996 elections, the 105th Congress, and the first term of the Clinton administration...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Ornstein, Norman J., Mann, Thomas E., Malbin, Michael J.

Product Description: Book by Ornstein, Norman J., Mann, Thomas E., Malbin, Michael J.

Product Description: From back cover blurb: "Here is the first book to address itself directly to the impact on the legislative process of greatly enlarged congressional staffs--from the preparation of data on which congressmen base legislation to the actual enactment of bills and conduct of investigations...read more

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1980 - Political Science - 384 pages