Critical Elections and Congressional Policy Making

Author/Contributor(s):	Brady, David W
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	05/01/1991
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This book argues that, despite the scholarly emphasis on 20th-century congressional history, it is necessary to study the nation's first 150 years in order to understand more fully the evolution and functioning of the modern Congress-a time when parties emerged, developed, realigned, and dissapeared; Congressional standing rules changed; the workload of Congress increased dramatically; and both houses grew greatly in size.