Congress overwhelmed : the decline in congressional capacity and prospects for reform / edited by Timothy M. LaPira, Lee Drutman, and Kevin R. Kosar.
"Over the last four decades Congress as an institution has been steadily dis-investing in its own internal organizational resources. Member offices and committees have made do with fewer, and less experienced and expert, staff than they used to employ. It has failed to conduct vigorous investigation...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
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2020.
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| Physical Description: | 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Contents:
- Overwhelmed : An introduction to Congress's capacity problem / Timothy M. LaPira, Lee Drutman, and Kevin R. Kosar
- Part 1. The foundations of Congressional capacity. Capacity for what? Legislative capacity regimes in Congress and the possibilities for reform / Lee Drutman and Timothy M. LaPira
- The decline in Congressional capacity / Molly E. Reynolds
- How Congress fell behind the Executive Branch / Philip A. Wallach
- Part 2. Knowledge and expertise in Congress. The Congressional capacity survey : Who staff are, how they got there, what they do, and where they may go / Alexander C. Furnas, Lee Drutman, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Timothy M. LaPira, and Kevin R. Kosar
- What do Congressional staff actually know? / Kristina C. Miler
- How committee staffers clear the runway for legislative action in Congress / Casey Burgat and Charles Hunt
- Legislative branch support agencies : What they are, what they do, and their uneasy position in our system of government / Kevin R. Kosar
- Part 3. The politics of capacity in the legislative process. Still muddling along? Assessing the hybrid Congressional appropriations process / Peter Hanson
- Congress and the capacity to act : overcoming gridlock in the Senate's amendment process / James Wallner
- The issue dynamics of Congressional capacity / Jonathan Lewallen, Sean M. Theriault, and Bryan D. Jones
- Congressional capacity and reauthorizations / E. Scott Adler, Stefani R. Langehennig, and Ryan W. Bell
- How experienced legislative staff contribute to effective lawmaking / Jesse M. Crosson, Geoffrey M. Lorenz, Craig Volden, and Alan E. Wiseman
- Capacity in a centralized Congress / James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee
- Congressional capacity and bipartisanship in Congress / Laurel Harbridge-Yong
- Part 4. Capacity and the politics of reform. Lessons from the history of reform / Ruth Bloch Rubin
- Dodging dead cats : What would it take to get congress to expand capacity? / Anthony Madonna and Ian Ostrander.