{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-the-american-congress-paperback","title":"The Oxford Handbook of the American Congress - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Schickler\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFrances E. Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eGeorge C. Edwards III\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo legislature in the world has a greater influence over its nation's public affairs than the US Congress. The Congress's centrality in the US system of government has placed research on Congress at the heart of scholarship on American politics. Generations of American government scholars working in a wide range of methodological traditions have focused their analysis on understanding Congress, both as a lawmaking and a representative institution. \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of the American Congress \u003c\/em\u003etakes stock of this impressive and diverse literature, identifying areas of accomplishment and promising directions for future work. The editors have commissioned 38 chapters by leading scholars in the field, each chapter critically engages the scholarship focusing on a particular aspect of congressional politics, including the institution's responsiveness to the American public, its procedures and capacities for policymaking, its internal procedures and development, relationships between the\u003cbr\u003ebranches of government, and the scholarly methodologies for approaching these topics. The \u003cem\u003eHandbook\u003c\/em\u003e also includes chapters addressing timely questions, including partisan polarization, congressional war powers, and the supermajoritarian procedures of the contemporary Senate. Beyond simply bringing readers up to speed on the current state of research, the volume offers critical assessments of how each literature has progressed--or failed to progress--in recent decades. The chapters identify the major questions posed by each line of research and assess the degree to which the answers developed in the literature are persuasive. The goal is not simply to tell us where we have been as a field, but to set an agenda for research on Congress for the next decade. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbooks of American Politics\u003c\/em\u003e are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The \u003cem\u003eHandbooks\u003c\/em\u003e aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeneral Editor for \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbooks of American Politics\u003c\/em\u003e: George C. Edwards III\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric Schickler\u003c\/strong\u003e is Jeffrey and Ashley McDermott Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eDisjointed Pluralism, \u003c\/em\u003e and co-author, with Greg Wawro, of \u003cem\u003eFilibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate\u003c\/em\u003e. Both books received APSA's Richard F. Fenno Award for the best book published on legislative politics. He is also co-author of \u003cem\u003ePartisan Hearts and Minds\u003c\/em\u003e (with Donald Green and Bradley Palmquist), and has authored or co-authored articles in the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Studies in American Political Development, Public Opinion Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSocial Science History\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrances E. Lee \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Government and Politics at University of Maryland-College Park. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBeyond Ideology\u003c\/em\u003e, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eSizing Up The Senate\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-author of a comprehensive textbook on the U.S. Congress, \u003cem\u003eCongress and Its Members\u003c\/em\u003e. Her research has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLegislative Studies Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e. Lee's work has received national recognition, including the APSA's E. E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American Politics, the D. B. Hardeman Award presented by the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation for the best book on a congressional topic, and the APSA's Richard F. 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