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  • Steering the Senate

    The Emergence of Party Organization and Leadership, 1789–2024

    by Gerald Gamm, Steven S. Smith ...
    The Senate majority and minority leaders stand at the pinnacle of American national government – as important to Congress as the speaker of the House. However, the invention of Senate floor leadership has, until now, been entirely unknown. Providing a sweeping account of the emergence of party organization and leadership in the US Senate, Steering the Senate is the first-ever study to examine the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The American Congress Reader

    by Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, Ryan J. Vander Wielen ...
    The American Congress Reader provides a supplement to the popular and updated American Congress undergraduate textbook. By the same authors who drew upon Capitol Hill experience and nationally recognized scholarship to present a crisp introduction and analysis of Congress's inner mechanics, the Reader compiles the best relevant scholarship on party and committee systems, leadership, voting, and ... Read more

    $66.49 USD

  • The American Congress

    by Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, Ryan J. Vander Wielen ...
    The tenth edition of this respected textbook provides a fresh perspective and a crisp introduction to congressional politics. Informed by the authors’ Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, the new edition reflects changes in Congress resulting from the 2018 elections and such developments as (a) a new majority party in the House; (b) new campaign spending numbers and election outcomes, rules, ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Call to Order

    Floor Politics in the House and Senate

    by Steven S. Smith ...
    Congress is playing by new rules--a changing distribution of power in Congress, a more complex interplay of rules and procedures and policy, and a new role for floor politics in the legislative process. In Call to Order, Smith outlines how a fairly stable period of reform in the 1950s and the early 1960s erupted into a turbulent period of reform in the 1970s. New issues spawned a variety of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Politics or Principle?

    Filibustering in the United States Senate

    by Sarah A. Binder, Steven S. Smith ...
    Is American democracy being derailed by the United States Senate filibuster? Is the filibuster an important right that improves the political process or an increasingly partisan tool that delays legislation and thwarts the will of the majority? Are century-old procedures in the Senate hampering the institution from fulfilling its role on the eve of the 21st century?The filibuster has achieved ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Politics of Institutional Choice

    The Formation of the Russian State Duma

    by Steven S. Smith, Thomas F. Remington ...
    Events in Russia since the late 1980s have created a rare opportunity to watch the birth of democratic institutions close at hand. Here Steven Smith and Thomas Remington provide the first intensive, theoretically grounded examination of the early development of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Federation's parliament created by the 1993 constitution. They offer an integrated account ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Managing Uncertainty in the House of Representatives

    Adaption and Innovation in Special Rules

    by Stanley Bach, Steven S. Smith ...
    The ""postreform"" House of Representatives of the 1980's is strikingly different from the House of the 1970s. A most important change is the increasingly creative use of special rules, which structure floor debate on major legislation. The new trade of special rule craftsmanship now plays a pivotal role in managing the uncertainties of decisionmaking in the House. During the 1970s new issues and ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The American Congress

    by Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts, Ryan J. Vander Wielen ...
    The ninth edition of this respected textbook provides a fresh perspective and a crisp introduction to congressional politics. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, the new edition reflects changes resulting from the November 2014 elections and such developments as (a) a new majority party in the Senate, (b) new campaign spending numbers and election outcomes, rules, ... Read more

    $63.19 USD

  • Politics Over Process

    Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress

    by Hong Min Park, Steven S. Smith, Ryan J. Vander Wielen ...
    Series series Legislative Politics And Policy Making
    Although the U.S. Constitution requires that the House of Representatives and the Senate pass legislation in identical form before it can be sent to the president for final approval, the process of resolving differences between the chambers has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. Hong Min Park, Steven S. Smith, and Ryan J. Vander Wielen document the dramatic changes in intercameral ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Senate Syndrome

    The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate

    by Steven S. Smith ...
    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    With its rock-bottom approval ratings, acrimonious partisan battles, and apparent inability to do its legislative business, the U.S. Senate might easily be deemed unworthy of attention, if not downright irrelevant. This book tells us that would be a mistake. Because the Senate has become the place where the policy-making process most frequently stalls, any effective resolution to our polarized ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

    by Adam Jentleson ...
    With a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administrationTHE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTER"A truly excellent book… blistering and persuasive.” —Ezra Klein, New York TimesAn insider’s account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used “the world’s greatest deliberative body” to hijack our democracy.Our democracy is under assault from homegrown ... Read more

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  • Minority Rule

    The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It

    by Ari Berman ...
    “Voting rights journalist Ari Berman has been detailing threats to our democracy for years, and his new book Minority Rule is a timely and essential read. He expertly shows how Republicans are trying to rig our political system—and shares how we can fight back.” —Hillary Clinton on XA riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democracy and entrench ... Read more

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