02740nam 22006134a 450 991045165220332120200520144314.01-280-84482-50-19-803889-51-4294-3874-6(CKB)1000000000469654(EBL)430543(OCoLC)79638472(SSID)ssj0000115201(PQKBManifestationID)11129699(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115201(PQKBWorkID)10007071(PQKB)11223002(MiAaPQ)EBC430543(Au-PeEL)EBL430543(CaPaEBR)ebr10160577(CaONFJC)MIL84482(EXLCZ)99100000000046965420060124d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe broken branch[electronic resource] how Congress is failing America and how to get it back on track /Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. OrnsteinOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (289 p.)Institutions of American democracy"The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.""The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania."0-19-536871-1 0-19-517446-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-255) and index.The first branch of government : theory and practice -- The seeds of the contemporary problem, 1969-1994 -- A decade of Republican control -- Institutional decline -- The case of continuity.Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional. Mann and Ornstein, two of the nations most renowned and judicious scholars of government and politics, bring to light the historical roots of CongrInstitutions of American democracy series.Electronic books.328.73Mann Thomas E140707Ornstein Norman J859424Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.Annenberg Public Policy Center.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451652203321The broken branch1944510UNINA