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Unorthodox Lawmaking
New Legislative Processes in the U.S. Congress
Fifth Edition
- Barbara Sinclair - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
September 2016 | 320 pages | CQ Press
“Barbara Sinclair does an excellent job of showing how contemporary lawmaking departs from the traditional legislative process. I can't imagine teaching a course on Congress without this text—it’s absolutely indispensable.”
—Philip Klinkner, Hamilton College
Most major measures wind their way through the contemporary Congress in what Barbara Sinclair has dubbed “unorthodox lawmaking.” In this much-anticipated Fifth Edition of Unorthodox Lawmaking, Sinclair explores the full range of special procedures and processes that make up Congress’s work, as well as the reasons these unconventional routes evolved. The author introduces students to the intricacies of Congress and provides the tools to assess the relative successes and limitations of the legislative process.
This dramatically revised Fifth Edition incorporates a wealth of new cases and examples to illustrate the changes occurring in congressional process. Two entirely new case study chapters highlight Sinclair’s fresh analysis and the book is now introduced by a new foreword from noted scholar and teacher, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, reflecting on this book and Barbara Sinclair’s significant mark on the study of Congress.
—Philip Klinkner, Hamilton College
Most major measures wind their way through the contemporary Congress in what Barbara Sinclair has dubbed “unorthodox lawmaking.” In this much-anticipated Fifth Edition of Unorthodox Lawmaking, Sinclair explores the full range of special procedures and processes that make up Congress’s work, as well as the reasons these unconventional routes evolved. The author introduces students to the intricacies of Congress and provides the tools to assess the relative successes and limitations of the legislative process.
This dramatically revised Fifth Edition incorporates a wealth of new cases and examples to illustrate the changes occurring in congressional process. Two entirely new case study chapters highlight Sinclair’s fresh analysis and the book is now introduced by a new foreword from noted scholar and teacher, Bruce I. Oppenheimer, reflecting on this book and Barbara Sinclair’s significant mark on the study of Congress.
Chapter 1: Clean Air: An Introduction to How the Legislative Process Has Changed
Chapter 2: Multiple Paths: The Legislative Process in the House of Representatives
Chapter 3: Routes and Obstacles: The Legislative Process in the Senate
Chapter 4: Getting One Bill: Reconciling House-Senate Differences
Chapter 5: Omnibus Legislation, the Budget Process, and Summits
Chapter 6: Why and How the Legislative Process Changed
Chapter 7: Making Nonincremental Policy Change through Hyperunorthodox Procedures: Health Care Reform in 2009-2010
Chapter 8: High-Stakes Budget Politics: The 2013 Government Shutdown and the Ryan-Murray Deal
Chapter 9: A Cross-Party Coalition Forces Policy Change: The USA Freedom Act
Chapter 10: The Consequences of Unorthodox Lawmaking
