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2006.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Congress has been situated on the outside edge of the subfield of American Political Development (APD) despite the institution's centrality both to the political history of the United States and to political science as a discipline. Apart from an important but limited number of works-including a long-term research enterprise on the role of sectionalism conducted by Richard Bensel, a study of the antebellum Senate by Elaine Swift, an assessment of the alliance between farmers and workers in the half-century after 1877 by Elizabeth Sanders, a major work on institutional transformations in the House and Senate by Eric Schickler, and a small number of emergent inquiries-"scholars in the American Political Development tradition," as Keith Whittington has noted, "have never fully integrated Congress, as they have other important institutions such as the bureaucracy, the presidency, political parties and the courts."
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