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The broken branch : how Congress is failing America and how to get it back on track
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"Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. Th...
"Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
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- English
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006
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- xiii, 272 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780197732991, 0195368711, 0198038895, 0195174461, 9780195174465, 9781280844829, 9780198038894, 9781429438742, 0197732992, 1280844825, 1429438746
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- ocm79638472, ocm63195916, on1406787278
- "The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands."
- "The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index.
- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion