02559nam 22006614a 450 991081433690332120200520144314.00-19-773299-21-280-84482-50-19-803889-51-4294-3874-610.1093/oso/9780195174465.001.0001(CKB)1000000000469654(EBL)430543(OCoLC)79638472(SSID)ssj0000115201(PQKBManifestationID)11129699(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115201(PQKBWorkID)10007071(PQKB)11223002(Au-PeEL)EBL430543(CaPaEBR)ebr10160577(CaONFJC)MIL84482(MiAaPQ)EBC430543(OCoLC)1406787278(StDuBDS)9780197732991(EXLCZ)99100000000046965420060124d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe broken branch how Congress is failing America and how to get it back on track /Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein1st ed.Oxford ;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.Arguing that congress faces a crisis of self-identity and role in the American Constitutional System, this book examines the first principles of the intended role of the legislative branch, looks throughout history at how congress has fulfilled this role, and considers what can be done to improve it.Institutions of American democracy series.328.73Mann Thomas E140707Ornstein Norman J1093192Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.Annenberg Public Policy Center.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814336903321The broken branch4003099UNINA