CONGRESS RECONSIDERED SEVENTH EDITION

Eighteen original essays by leading scholars offer a cutting edge perspective on change in the modern Congress. This edition provides an assessment of the Republican revolution, its electoral aftermath in 1996, and the prospects for a long-term Republican congressional dominance.

Dodd and Oppenheimer provide the reader with up-to-date knowledge and insights through a series of articles by many of the best congressional scholars researching the contemporary institution and its historical development. Included in this edition are a number of important perspectives on Republican reforms and the circumstances that made their GOP victories possible. But the contributors also place the developments of the 104th Congress in historical context, assessing which changes break new ground, and which continue previously developing trends.

A must for all who seek to understand what's happened to the post-reform Congress and where it's going.