Committee Assignment Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee Assignment Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives

Author: Scott A. Frisch

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780806137209

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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 both Democratic and Republican leaders from the 85th to the 103rd Congress—to reveal the complex process through which congressional members get assigned to the powerful committees of the House. They conclude that parties differ in their committee assignment methods and that party approaches can change over time depending on leadership. They also pay particular attention to the increasing roles of race and gender in the assignment process. Based on extensive primary and secondary research, this volume fills a crucial gap in our understanding of the internal dynamics of the American political system.

Congress and Defense Spending
Congress and Defense Spending

Author: Barry Rundquist

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780806134024

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Since World War II, the U.S. government has spent more than $10 trillion on defense. Although everyone in the United States must pay taxes supporting defense contracts, ten states have obtained 75 percent of all defense contracts and expenditures. In Congress and Defense Spending , Barry S. Rundquist and Thomas M. Carsey examine how the distribution of defense contracts is influenced by the interaction of state and local economies with the organization of Congress and how previous state representation on defense committees has affected current committee representation.

The End of the Republican Era
The End of the Republican Era

Author: Theodore J. Lowi

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9780806128870

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In The End of the Republican Era, Theodore J. Lowi predicts not only a collapse of the Republican coalition but also the potential collapse of the United States’ republican experiment at large. Professing that the ideologies of dominant political coalitions contain the seeds of their own destruction, Lowi suggests that the efforts of a new conservative Right to enforce a national, religion-based morality has brought about the demise of the Republican era. A new, in-depth afterword by Lowi brings the text up to date with a discussion of political events since the book’s original publication. Noting the appearance of the new Conservative coalition, whose ideology runs counter to that of the traditional Republican party, Lowi affirms that the Republican era did in fact come to an end during the 1990s, having morphed into a Conservative party.

Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress
Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress

Author: Craig Volden

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-27

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0521761522

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This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.