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Are courtesy meetings nuked?
Image source: National Review By Mark Owens Process and procedure have begun to dominate debates about controversial or salient nominations to the federal bench. Frustration emerged when the regular procedures… Read More
Gender parity and the study of Congress
Image source here By Colleen J. Shogan As Women’s History Month comes to a close, a fruitful discussion about women in the workplace and gender equity continues. American politics has… Read More
Is Congress Broken? Not Necessarily
By Richard M. Skinner William F. Connelly, Jr., John J. Pitney, Jr., and Gary J. Schmitt, Is Congress Broken? The Virtues and Defects of Partisanship and Gridlock (Brookings Institution… Read More
Is Too Much Transparency Crippling Congressional Deal-Making?
The U.S. Congress: Too much or too little transparency? by Rob Oldham President-elect Donald Trump prides himself on being a deal-maker and has said that he hopes to… Read More
Academic Panel On Congressional Capacity
Lee Drutman and Kevin Kosar, the co-directors of the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group, will be on a panel titled “Assessing Congress’ Capacity to Solve Problems.” This will occur… Read More
Will the Senate Go Nuclear Again?
Put this in the “it’s not really nuclear” category. Despite several accounts reporting that Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) plans to go nuclear, don’t believe the headlines. That said this is… Read More
Liberal Bias in the Classroom: College of Charleston Edition
You’ve heard about it. College professors, who are disproportionately liberal, skew the views of their impressionable young students by assigning leftist books and poking fun at conservatives in the… Read More
Yes, Elections are Cultivating Polarization. But…
Competition for power, gerrymandering, disappearing marginal districts define Congress’s electoral landscape. Today, the American electorate is both closely divided and increasingly uncompetitive. In other words, partisan majorities are narrower today… Read More
Blogging Hiatus
Just a quick administrative note: I’ll be stepping away from the blog for the next several months. For the remainder of this academic year I am working in Congress as… Read More
Congratulations to Josh and Nate!
I wanted to take a moment for a little Rule 22 self-promotion. Congratulations are in order for a supermajority of this blog. Last week, Josh was awarded the American Political… Read More