Senate Syndrome The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U. S. Senate

Name: Senate Syndrome The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U. S. Senate
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ISBN: 9780806144399

ISBN-10: 0806144394

ISBN-13: 9780806144399

Edition: 2014

Authors: Steven S. Smith

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With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright irrelevant. This book tells us that would be a mistake. Because the Senate has become the place where the policy-making process most frequently stalls, any effective resolution to our polarized politics demands a clear understanding of how the formerly august legislative body once worked and how it came to the present crisis. Steven S. Smith provides that understanding in The Senate Syndrome.Like the Senate itself, Smith's account is grounded in history. Countering a cacophony of inexpert…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 3/20/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.36" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English