TY - BOOK AU - Mann,Thomas E. AU - Ornstein,Norman J. ED - Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. ED - Annenberg Public Policy Center. TI - The broken branch: how Congress is failing America and how to get it back on track T2 - Institutions of American democracy SN - 0195174461 (cloth) AV - JK1041 .M36 2006 U1 - 328.73 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - United States KW - Congress KW - Reform KW - The broken branch N1 - "The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands."; "The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-255) and index; 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 N2 - Congress is the first branch of government in the American system [write the authors] but now it is a broken branch. [This book] offers both a ... diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a ... blueprint for change.-Dust jacket UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006002568.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0635/2006002568-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0723/2006002568-b.html ER -