Description
Modern Congress: Trends
Discuss two or more of the following trends in the modern Congress: (a) plebiscitary politics;
(b) governing as campaigning; (c) new forms of organized influence; (d) changing membership;
and, (e) changing party control.
Note: Please proofread your post carefully before submitting them.
Reading Resources:
The Congress in A History of the U.S. Political System : Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
Permanent Campaigning
House Appropriations after the Republican Revolution.
The tea party and the remaking of republican conservatism
Styles of Social Media Campaigning and Influence in a Hybrid Political Communication System