Congress and Its Members (Sixteenth Edition)

The authors of this textbook are in my estimation among the best scholars and researchers in the field. "Congress and Its Members is the gold standard for textbooks on the U.S. Congress. There seems to be no question about Congress whose answer cannot be found in the pages of Congress and Its Members."--Carrie Eaves . They have produced a superior product."--Scot Schraufnagel"Davidson, Oleszek, Lee, and Schickler have clearly taken great effort to ensure the book is as thorough as po

Always balancing great scholarship with currency, the best-seller features lively case material along with relevant data, charts, exhibits, maps, and photos.. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Frances E. The Sixteenth Edition of this best-selling text considers the 2016 elections and discusses the agenda of the new Congress, White House-Capitol Hill relations, party and committee leadership changes, judicial appointments, and partisan polarization, as well as covering changes to budgeting, campaign finance, lobbying, public attitudes about Congress, reapportionment, rules, and procedures. Lee, and Eric S

Thurber (1995), and Understanding the Presidency, Seventh Edition, co-edited with James P. Bacon and Morton Keller of The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (1995). Davidson is professor emeritus of government and politics at the University of Maryland, and has served as visiting professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. . Davidson is co-editor with Donald C. Pfiffner (201