C. Lawrence Evans & Lawrence C. Dodd 
Congress Reconsidered [EPUB ebook] 

Tables and Figures
Preface
Contributors
Part I: Patterns and Dynamics of Congressional Change
Chapter 1: The U.S. Senate and the Meaning of Dysfunction – C. Lawrence Evans and Wendy J. Schiller
Chapter 2: Lending and Reclaiming Power: Majority Leadership in the House From the 1950s to Trump – John H. Aldrich and David W. Rohde
Part II: Elections, Constituencies, and Representation
Chapter 3: Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Issues in Congressional Elections – Robert S. Erikson and Gerald C. Wright
Chapter 4: Partisanship, Money, and Competition: Elections and the Transformation of Congress Since the 1970s – Gary C. Jacobson
Chapter 5: Women Running, Women Winning: Voter Preferences in 2018 – Danielle M. Thomsen
Chapter 6: Black-Latino Relations in Congress: Examining Institutional Context and Inter-Minority Group Relations Further – Robert R. Preuhs and Rodney E. Hero
Part III: Parties and Polarization
Chapter 7: The Dynamics of Party Government in Congress – Steven S. Smith and Gerald Gamm
Chapter 8: House Parties, Divided: Intraparty Organization in the Contemporary Congress – Ruth Bloch Rubin
Chapter 9: The Struggle to Legislate in Polarized Times – Sarah Binder
Chapter 10: The War Over Judges in the Senate – Gregory Koger
Part IV: Congress and the Policy Process
Chapter 11: Enduring Continuities in Congressional Lawmaking – James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee
Chapter 12: Legislative Styles and the Dynamics of Congressional Behavior – Tracy Sulkin
Chapter 13: The Politics of the Budget and Appropriations Process in a Polarized Congress – Molly E. Reynolds
Chapter 14: Party, Ideology, and Legislative Effectiveness in the U.S. Senate – Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman
Part V: Congress in a Separation of Powers System
Chapter 15: Congressional Investigations in a Polarized Era Or Has Polarization (and Trump?) Broken the Investigative Check? – Douglas L. Kriner and Eric Schickler
Chapter 16: How Congressional Polarization Is Transforming the Separation of Powers – Nolan Mc Carty
Chapter 17: The 2020 Congressional Elections In a Time of COVID-19, Economic Turmoil, and Trump – Lawrence C. Dodd and Bruce I. Oppenheimer
Suggested Readings
Index

Bruce I. Oppenheimer is professor of political science at Vanderbilt University and director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. He has been a Brookings fellow in Governmental Studies (1970–1971) and an APSA congressional fellow (1974–1975). He is author of Oil and the Congressional Process: The Limits of Symbolic Politics (1974). His book Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (1999), cowritten with Frances Lee, was awarded the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation’s D. B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on Congress. He is also the editor of U.S. Senate Exceptionalism (2002) and the author of numerous articles. His recent research focuses on Congress and energy policy and on variation in competition in open-seat House primaries.