For Wednesday, read the first chapter of Davidson.
Objectives of course:
- Why the institution operates the way it does
- What motivates members
- Reelection
- Power: individual and party
- Good public policy
- How lawmakers, activists, and ordinary citizens accomplish their aims.
- Comparisons
- Two Congresses: Representative assembly and lawmaking body.
- Two chambers: House and Senate are different.
- Two parties: Republicans and Democrats differ ideologically, geographically and demographically, though the lines have shifted over the years.
- Two kinds of status: being in the majority is really different from being in the minority.
- Recent developments
- Impact of the 2020 elections.
- Trump administration and impeachment
The Room Where It Happens
- Deliberation and compromise
- Missing today? Will the situation change?
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