Broken Branch How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track

Name: Broken Branch How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track
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ISBN: 9780195368710

ISBN-10: 0195368711

ISBN-13: 9780195368710

Edition: 2008

Authors: Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein

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The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional. Mann and Ornstein, two of the nation's most renowned and judicious scholars of government and politics, bring to light the historical roots of Congress's current maladies, examining 40 years of uninterrupted Democratic control of the House and the stunning midterm election victory of 1994 that propelled Republicans into the majority in both House and Senate. The byproduct of that long and grueling but ultimately successful Republican…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



The First Branch of Government: Theory and Practice



The Seeds of the Contemporary Problem, 1969-1994



A Decade of Republican Control



Institutional Decline



The Case of Continuity



Conclusion



Epilogue: Is the Broken Branch on the Mend?


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index