Approval of Members; Distrust of Institution

  Personal Staff

  Occupations of Members

  Personal Characteristics

  Wealthiest Members of Congress

Changes in Congressional Representation of the President's Party

Congressional Support of the President, Johnson to Reagan

Success Rates & Quality of Nonincumbent House Candidates

  Campaign Expenditures

  Advertising Among Members

  Incumbency Advantage: House

  Incumbency Advantage: Senate

  Decline of Parties

  Demography of Parties, 1990s

  Party ID

  Midterm Losses by the President's Party

  Systems of Representation

  Term Limits: Pro and Con

  Turnout and Suffrage

Jacobson: The Marginals Never Vanished

Bauer and Hibbing: Which Incumbents Lose

  Miller and Stokes: Constituency Influence

  Partisan Patterns of House Leadership Change

  Uncompensated Violations of Seniority

  Evolution of the Speakership

  Growth of Seniority in Selection of Chairs

  Reasons for Leadership Change

  Historical Causes of Seniority System

  Maintenance of Seniority System

Compensated Violations of Seniority

  Violations of Seniority by Speaker

  Division of Labor versus Centralization of Power

  Decentralization of Committees

  Historical Causes of Seniority

  How Seniority Maintains Itself

Congressional Committees Comparison

The Legislative Process

  Two Congressional Functions:  Lawmaking v Representation

  Two Congressional Functions:  Fragmentation v Integration

  Tragedy of the Commons

  Pre modern v Modern Congress

  Congressional Allowances

  Length of Service, House and Senate

  Congressional Mailings

  Reelection Rates, House and Senate, 1946-1994

  Growth in the House of Representatives

  Delay in Congress

  The Congressional Budget Process

  Presidential Powers

Presidential-Congressional Policy making

                    Divided Government:

  Districts with Split Results

  Divided Control of Government

                     The Executive Bureaucracy:

  The Effects of Oversight

  Selecting the Oversight Agenda