Congress : The First Branch / / Kathryn Wagner Hill, Benjamin Ginsberg

• Autore: Ginsberg Benjamin
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 pages)
• Disciplina: 328.73
• Soggetto topico: Legislative bodies - United States; Legislative bodies - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government
• Persona (resp. second.): HillKathryn Wagner
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2019.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1. Congress: The First Branch -- 2. A Brief History of Congress: From First Branch to Second Fiddle -- 3. Congressional Elections -- 4. Political Parties and the Organization of Congress -- 5. The Legislative Process: The Rise of the New Order in Congress -- 6. Congress, the President, and Domestic Policy: Who Governs? -- 7. Congress and Foreign Policy -- 8. Congress and the Bureaucracy: Who Makes the Law? -- 9. Congress and the Courts -- 10. Reflections on Congress -- NOTES -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: An introduction to the U.S. Congress, from seasoned political historians and teachers In this accessible overview of the United States Congress's past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country's most democratic institution. This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legislative process, Congress and the President, and Congress and the courts. Congress: The First Branch offers a fresh approach to the First Branch grounded in a historical, positive frame.
• Titolo autorizzato: Congress
• ISBN: 0-300-24961-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793751303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Yale scholarship online.