Theorizing Congress

How Congress Lost, Part IV: Washington, Foreign Policy, and the Emergence of Presidential Governance
How Congress Lost, Part IV: Washington, Foreign Policy, and the Emergence of Presidential Governance

Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part IV: Washington, Foreign Policy, and the Emergence of PresidentialGovernance, American Enterprise Institute, August 2024. This ...

September 2, 2024
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How Congress Lost, Part III: Hamiltonian Energy and the Washington Administration
How Congress Lost, Part III: Hamiltonian Energy and the Washington Administration

Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part III: Hamiltonian Energy and the Washington Administration, American Enterprise Institute, June 2024. This report by ...

September 2, 2024
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How Congress Lost, Part II: The Constitutional Presidency
How Congress Lost, Part II: The Constitutional Presidency

Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part II: The Constitutional Presidency, American Enterprise Institute, March 2024. This report by Jay Cost, the ...

July 12, 2024
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How Congress Lost, Part I: The Defeated Congress
How Congress Lost, Part I: The Defeated Congress

"Congress was intended to be the most important institution in our national government.... Congress’s centrality in American political life is ...

February 9, 2024
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Job Description for a Member of Congress
Job Description for a Member of Congress

Kathy Goldschmidt and Bradley Sinkaus, Job Description for a Member of Congress, Congressional Management Foundation, 2018. Note: The job description offered ...

January 16, 2024
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Why Congress
Why Congress

This book is a bold defense of our nation's legislature and its ability to work through the country's deepest divisions, ...

January 2, 2024
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What is the Role of a Legislator in Congress?
What is the Role of a Legislator in Congress?

Source: House.gov. I taught a course on Congress to undergraduate students last year. After getting the students to share their concerns and dislikes about ...

January 1, 2024
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Congress and National Cohesion
Congress and National Cohesion

"Having a national, geographically representative legislature often feels inevitable, but in historical fact, it is an arrangement that arose in ...

January 1, 2024
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Congress Indispensable
Congress Indispensable

"Properly understood, however, Congress is no anachronism. The very features that would-be reformers find most exasperating — its messiness, balkiness, and cacophony — are ...

January 1, 2024
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