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The broken branch : how Congress is failing America and how to get it back on track / Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mann, Thomas E., author.
- Ornstein, Norman J., author.
- Series:
- Institutions of American democracy series.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Institutions of American democracy
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Congress.
- United States.
- United States. Congress--Reform.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arguing that congress faces a crisis of self-identity and role in the American Constitutional System, this book examines the first principles of the intended role of the legislative branch, looks throughout history at how congress has fulfilled this role, and considers what can be done to improve it.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- "The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands."
- "The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania."
- Previously issued in print: 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773299-2
- 1-280-84482-5
- 0-19-803889-5
- 1-4294-3874-6
- OCLC:
- 79638472
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