The American Legislative Process: Congress and the States (10th Edition)

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/8770C-5 0-13-087703-4 Keefe William J. Ogul Morris S. The American Legislative Process: Congress and the States 10/E//-- This book describes and analyzes the American legislative process using a wide variety of perspectives and sources to encompass legal behavioral normative and historical dimensions. Its current content reflects evolving legislatures and the latest literature on the legislative process. Chapter topics include financing congressional elections pork barrel politics in Congress initiative and referendum term limits impeachment redistricting and the courts recruitment of legislative candidates PACs committee politics committee floor relations rules legislative strategy party caucuses party voting independent counsels presidential leadership in Congress congressional accountability reapportionment incumbency congressional norms house speakership seniority majority-minority districts interest group influence party impact on policy making legislative-judicial relations and legislative ethics. For anyone interested in the United States Congress the legislative process and American political institutions.