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The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on
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The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track Hardcover - 2006

by Mann, Thomas E., and Ornstein, Norman J

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. very good, very good. 272, notes, index. Inscribed by the co-author (Ornstein). The authors highlight the dramatic shift in Congress from a highly decentralized, committee-based institution into a much more centralized one in which party increasingly trumps committee. Strong majority leadership in Congress has led to a general passivity in the face of executive power.
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Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. The author of numerous books on American government, and a contributor to major magazines and newspapers like Washington Post and New York Times, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mann has served as co-director (with Ornstein) of the Transition to Governing Project and senior counselor (with Ornstein) to the Continuity of Government Commission. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Norman J. Ornstein is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. An election analyst for CBS News, he writes a weekly column called "Congress Inside Out" for Roll Call. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, and he appears regularly on television programs like The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Nightline, and Charlie Rose. He serves on the board of the Public Broadcasting Service and several other nonprofit groups. Like Mann, he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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