Do Not Ask What Good We Do
Do Not Ask What Good We Do

Author: Robert Draper

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-04-24

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1451642083

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Provides a close examination of the final two years of the Bush Presidency in a revealing and riveting look at the new House of Representatives, elected in the history-making 2010 midterm elections.

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.