Congress and Its Members

The Gold Standard for Congress Courses for Over Thirty Years  

Congress and Its Members by Roger H. Davidson, Walter J. Oleszek, Frances E. Lee, and Eric Schickler offers you comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Congress and the legislative process by examining the tension between Congress as a lawmaking institution and as a collection of politicians constantly seeking re-election. The highly anticipated Seventeenth Edition considers the 2018 elections and the Trump administration, discussing the agenda of the new Congress, White House–Capitol Hill relations, party and committee leadership changes, judicial appointments, and partisan polarization, in addition to covering changes to budgeting, campaign finance, lobbying, public attitudes about Congress, reapportionment, rules, and procedures. Always balancing great scholarship with currency, this bestseller features lively case material along with relevant data, charts, exhibits, maps, and photos.

• Congress Reconsidered
• Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the U.S. Congress
• Congress: The Electoral Connection
• Congressional Procedures and the Policy Process
• Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign
• The Politics of the Presidency
• Hardball: How Politics Is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game
• Party Politics in America
• Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide
• The Fundamentals of Political Science Research