The Pig Book
The Pig Book

Author: Citizens Against Government Waste

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-04-06

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780312343576

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A compendium of the most ridiculous examples of Congress's pork-barrel spending.

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.

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

The Broken Branch
The Broken Branch

Author: Thomas E. Mann

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0195368711

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Two nationally renowned congressional scholars review the evolution of Congress from the early days of the republic to 2006, arguing that extreme partisanship and a disregard for institutional procedures are responsible for the institution's current state of dysfunction.