DIRECTORY OF CONTRIBUTORS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION: The Legislative Branch as an Institution of American Constitutional Democracy, Jaroslav Pelikan
INTRODUCTION: Congress and American Democracy: Institutions and Performance, Paul J. Quirk and Sarah A. Binder
SECTION I: IDEALS AND DEVELOPMENT
1. Congress and the Constitutional System, Charles Stewart III
2. Institutional Development of Congress, Eric Shickler
3. Actions in the Public Square, David R. Mayhew
SECTION II: ELECTIONS AND REPRESENTATION
4. Modern Campaigns and Representation, Gary C. Jacobson
5. Elections, Parties, and Governance, Sarah A. Binder
6. Representing Racial and Ethnic Minorities, David T. Canon
SECTION III: STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES
7. Committees and Policy Formulation, David W. Rohde
8. Parties and Leadership in the House, Barbara Sinclair
9. Parties and Leadership in the Senate, Steven S. Smith
SECTION IV: POLICY AND PERFORMANCE
10. Interests, Constituencies, and Policy Making, Frances E. Lee
11. Deliberation and Decision Making, Paul J. Quirk
12. Foreign Affairs and War, Christopher J. Deering
13. Budgets and Fiscal Policy, Eric Patashnik
14. Advice and Consent: Cooperation and Conflict in the Appointment of Federal Judges, Forrest Maltzman
15. Congress and the Bureaucracy, Charles R. Shipan
SECTION V: ASSESSMENTS AND PROSPECTS
16. Images of Congress, John R. Hibbing
17. Politics of Congressional Reform, C. Lawrence Evans
18. Congress and American Democracy: Assessing Institutional Performance, Paul J. Quirk and Sarah Binder
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