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The First Branch--Companion Readings
Edited by Benjamin Ginsberg and Kathryn Wagner Hill
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A reader to accompany Ginsberg and Wagner Hill's Congress: The First Branch
This reader offers an examination of such topics as congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legislative process, Congress and the president, and Congress and the courts. It is designed to accompany the course text Congress: The First Branch, which introduces Congress as America’s most democratic institution. Based more on the history of the branch than on its modern applications, this volume is essential for students utilizing the main text and studying Congress at large.
This reader offers an examination of such topics as congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legislative process, Congress and the president, and Congress and the courts. It is designed to accompany the course text Congress: The First Branch, which introduces Congress as America’s most democratic institution. Based more on the history of the branch than on its modern applications, this volume is essential for students utilizing the main text and studying Congress at large.
Benjamin Ginsberg is the David Bernstein Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and chair of the Hopkins Center for Advanced Governmental Studies. Kathryn Wagner Hill is director of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins.
"This is an excellent supplemental reader, appropriate for current developments in Congress as well as Congressional electioneering."—John Grummel, Upper Iowa University
"A unique combination of classic sources, historical analyses, modern empirical studies, as well as first-hand accounts of the contemporary Congress in action, this collection is comprehensive, authoritative, and eminently readable."—Douglas B. Harris, Loyola University Maryland
“A unique perspective of how Congress operates in the twenty-first century. Readers will be introduced to a wide range of perspectives on legislative politics in the U.S. Congress.”—Jamie Carson, University of Georgia
ISBN: 9780300220636
Publication Date: July 21, 2020
Publication Date: July 21, 2020
272 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
27 b/w illus.
27 b/w illus.
