CONGRESS RESPONDS TO THE 20TH CENTURY Format: Paperback

Congress occupies a central place in the U.S. political system. Its reach into American society is vast and deep. Overtime, the issues it has confronted have increased in both quantity and complexity. At the beginning, Congress dealt with a handful of matters, whereas today it has its hands in every imaginable aspect of life. It has attempted to meet these challenges and has changed throughout the course of its history, prodded by factors both external and internal to the institution. The essays in this volume argue therefore that as society changed throughout the twentieth century, Congress responded to those changes.

Sunil Ahuja is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Seton Hall University. He received his Ph.D. in 1995 from the University of Nebraska. His teaching and research focus on American political institutions and electoral politics. He has published in such journals as the AMERICAN POLITICS QUARTERLY and POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY. He is contributor to and coeditor of GOVERNMENT AT WORK (1998) and THE ROADS TO CONGRESS 1998 (2000). He is coeditor of the LEGISLATIVE STUDIES QUARTERLY.

Dewhirst is Professor of Political Science at Northwest Missouri State University.