Congress Overwhelmed

1              Overwhelmed: An Introduction to Congress’s Capacity Problem
Timothy M. LaPira, Lee Drutman, and Kevin R. Kosar
 
Part 1    The Foundations of Congressional Capacity
2              Capacity for What? Legislative Capacity Regimes in Congress and the Possibilities for Reform
Lee Drutman and Timothy M. LaPira
3              The Decline in Congressional Capacity
Molly E. Reynolds
4              How Congress Fell Behind the Executive Branch
Philip A. Wallach
 
Part 2    Knowledge and Expertise in Congress
5              The Congressional Capacity Survey: Who Staff Are, How They Got There, What They Do, and Where They May Go
Alexander C. Furnas, Lee Drutman, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Timothy M. LaPira, and Kevin R. Kosar
6              What Do Congressional Staff Actually Know?
Kristina C. Miler
7              How Committee Staffers Clear the Runway for Legislative Action in Congress
Casey Burgat and Charles Hunt
8              Legislative Branch Support Agencies: What They Are, What They Do, and Their Uneasy Position in Our System of Government
Kevin R. Kosar
 
Part 3    The Politics of Capacity in the Legislative Process
9              Still Muddling Along? Assessing the Hybrid Congressional Appropriations Process
Peter Hanson
10           Congress and the Capacity to Act: Overcoming Gridlock in the Senate’s Amendment Process
James Wallner
11           The Issue Dynamics of Congressional Capacity
Jonathan Lewallen, Sean M. Theriault, and Bryan D. Jones
12           Congressional Capacity and Reauthorizations
E. Scott Adler, Stefani R. Langehennig, and Ryan W. Bell
13           How Experienced Legislative Staff Contribute to Effective Lawmaking
Jesse M. Crosson, Geoffrey M. Lorenz, Craig Volden, and Alan E. Wiseman
14           Capacity in a Centralized Congress
James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee
15           Congressional Capacity and Bipartisanship in Congress
Laurel Harbridge-Yong
 
Part 4    Capacity and the Politics of Reform
16           Lessons from the History of Reform
Ruth Bloch Rubin
17           Dodging Dead Cats: What Would It Take to Get Congress to Expand Capacity?
Anthony Madonna and Ian Ostrander
 
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
List of Contributors
Index
Online appendixes are available at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/congressionalcapacity/.