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BL
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581247
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b410466
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| Main Entry
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Mann, Thomas E
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| Title & Author
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The broken branch : : how Congress is failing America and how to get it back on track /\ Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2006
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Institutions of American democracy
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xiii, 272 p. ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0195174461 (cloth)
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: 9780195174465
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"The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands."
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"The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-255) and index
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| Contents
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Introduction -- The first branch of government : theory and practice -- The seeds of the contemporary problem, 1969-1994 -- A decade of Republican control -- Institutional decline -- The case of continuity -- Conclusion
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| Abstract
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"Congress is the first branch of government in the American system, write Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, but now it is a broken branch, damaged by partisan bickering and internal rancor. The Broken Branch offers both a diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional."--Jacket
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United States.
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United States.-- Reform
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| Dewey Classification
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328.73
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JK1041.M36 2006
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Ornstein, Norman J
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Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
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Annenberg Public Policy Center
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