The United States Congress - Softcover

Adler, E. Scott; Jenkins, Jeffery A.; Shipan, Charles R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393680193 ISBN 13: 9780393680195

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

Synopsis

An accessible approach to a modern Congress course

Drawing on their extensive teaching experience, Scott Adler, Jeff Jenkins, and Chuck Shipan bring current political science into the classroom in an engaging, accessible way. Driven by vivid examples and clear writing, this comprehensive book teaches students to critically analyze Congress’s role as a representative and governing body. It examines Congress' key rules, structures, and procedures and its dynamic interactions with other institutions.

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About the Author

E. Scott Adler is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His current research uses theoretical models of legislative organization to examine congressional agenda setting and committee power. He is the author of Why Congressional Reforms Fail: Reelection and the House Committee System (2002), which was awarded the Alan Rosenthal Prize from the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association, and Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving (2012, co-authored with John Wilkerson). He is also co-editor of The Macropolitics of Congress (2006). He has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review. Adler is co-PI of the Congressional Bills Project, which has compiled and coded data on all bills introduced in Congress since World War II. From 2006 to 2007, Adler was a Visiting Professor at the Center for the Study of American Politics and Department of Political Science, Yale University. He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1988 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1996.

Jeffery A. Jenkins is Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law, Judith & John Bedrosian Chair of Governance and the Public Enterprise, Director of the Bedrosian Center, and Director of the Political Institutions and Political Economy (PIPE) Collaborative at the University of Southern California. He previously held tenure-stream positions at the University of Virginia, Northwestern University, and Michigan State University. His research interests include American political institutions and development (with a special emphasis on Congress and political parties), lawmaking, separation of powers, and political economy. Much of his work takes a positive political theory (or rational choice) approach and examines how political actors pursue their interests while being constrained by formal and informal institutional arrangements. His current work involves papers on the ideological content of federal lawmaking in the postwar era and book projects on how civil rights policy has been dealt with in Congress over time and how the Republican Party evolved in the South after the Civil War. Dr. Jenkins holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.S. in mathematical methods for the social sciences from Northwestern University. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and Michigan State University. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Politics.

Charles R. Shipan is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan, Shipan served on the faculty at the University of Iowa, and he has also held positions as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, as a visiting research fellow at Trinity College in Dublin, and as a visiting fellow at the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Designing Judicial Review, co-author of Deliberate Discretion?, and has written numerous articles and book chapters on political institutions and public policy. He is currently engaged in a comparative study of antismoking laws in the U.S. and Switzerland and an examination of the effects of bipartisanship on public policy. Shipan received a B.A. in chemistry from Carleton College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0393680193
• ISBN 13: 9780393680195
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 452