Der kaputte Zweig: Wie der Kongress Amerika im Stich lässt und wie man ihn wieder auf Kurs bringt

Author/Contributor(s):	Mann, Thomas E
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	08/29/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change. Mann and Ornstein, two of the nation's most renowned scholars of government and politics, bring to light the historical roots of Congress's current maladies. They highlight the dramatic shift in Congress from a highly decentralized, committee-based institution into a much more regimented one in which party increasingly trumps committee. The resultant changes in the policy process--the demise of regular order, the decline of deliberation, and the weakening of our system of checks and balances--have all compromised the role of Congress.