The broken branch : how Congress is failing America and how to get it back on track / / Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein.

• Superior document: Institutions of American democracy
• Author: Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.; Mann, Thomas E.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ornstein, Norman J.; Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.; Annenberg Public Policy Center.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Institutions of American democracy series.
• Physical Description: xiii, 272 p.
• Notes: "The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands."; "The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania."

Table of Contents

• 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.