TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wolfensberger, Donald R.
TI  - Changing cultures in congress: from fair play to power plays
T2  - Woodrow Wilson Center series
SN  - 9780231190152
AV  - KF4992.W65 CHA 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - United States.Congress.House
KW  - Rules and practice
KW  - Elections
KW  - Parliamentary practice
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Rolling rules : from level ground to partisan tilt -- Making House rules -- Procedural triage for health care reform -- Fraying purse strings -- Whither the war power? -- Congress and the Iran deal : rational reactor or design flaw? -- Governing in a political world
N2  - The United States Congress has been described as dysfunctional, gridlocked, polarized, hyperpartisan, chaotic, and do-nothing. In Changing Cultures in Congress, Donald R. Wolfensberger explains the institutional dynamics behind Congress's devolution to a body plagued by a win-at-any-cost mentality and a culture of perpetual campaigning
ER  -