Readers who are inclined to share that fantasy would do well to consult the work of Joseph M. Bessette.

Up-to-date and now more student-friendly. Features the 2012 elections, health care reform, and an early take on the 113th Congress.

The final of four volumes in the 'California History Sesquicentennial Series', this text compiles original essays which treat the consequential role of post-Gold Rush California government, politics and law in the building of a dynamic ...

Walter Oleszek examines how the majority and minority parties in the US use procedural devices to achieve their political goals and offers an assessment of the role of conference committees in reconciling bicameral differences.