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020    $a 0195368711 (pbk.)
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100 1  $a Mann, Thomas E.
245 14 $a The broken branch : $b how Congress is failing America and how to get it back on track / $c Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein.
250    $a 2008 ed.
264  1 $a New York :  $b Oxford University Press,  $c 2008.
300    $a xiii, 298 p. ; $c 21 cm.
490 1  $a Institutions of American democracy series
500    $a "Updated with new epilogue"--Cover.
500    $a "The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.".
500    $a "The Annenberg Public Policy.".
504    $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281) and index.
505 0  $a 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 -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: is the broken branch on the mend?
520    $a The Broken Branch offers both a diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional. --from publisher description.
541    $d 20131011.
610 11 $a United States $b Congress.
610 11 $a United States $b Congress. $x Reform.
650  0 $a United States $x Politics and government.
700    $a Ornstein, Norman J.
710    $a Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.
710    $a Annenberg Public Policy Center.
830    $a Institutions of American democracy series.
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