Approval of Members; Distrust of Institution

Personal Staff

Occupations of Members

Personal Characteristics

Wealthiest Members of Congress
 

  Congressional Elections

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
 

  The Incumbency Issue

Jacobson: The Marginals Never Vanished

Bauer and Hibbing: Which Incumbents Lose

Miller and Stokes: Constituency Influence
 

   Congressional Leadership

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
 

   Congressional Committees

Division of Labor versus Centralization of Power

Decentralization of Committees

Historical Causes of Seniority

How Seniority Maintains Itself

The Legislative Process

Congressional Committees Comparison
 

  The Institutional Congress

Two Congressional Functions:  Lawmaking v Representation

Two Congressional Functions:  Fragmentation v Integration

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
 

Congress and the Presidency

Presidential Powers

Tragedy of the Commons

Presidential-Congressional Policymaking

Divided Government:

Districts with Split Results

Divided Control of Government

The Executive Bureaucracy:

The Effects of Oversight

Selecting the Oversight Agenda