Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521152266)

This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.

Author: Craig Volden, Alan E. Wiseman
ISBN-10: 0521152267
ISBN-13: 9780521152266
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2014
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2015 pg. 1593