Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed Nov. 10, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references.

Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. What's the Problem with Congress?; 2. The Ascent of Bipartisanship to the Congressional Reform Agenda; 3. The Challenge of Bipartisanship A Historical Perspective; 4. Congress and Electoral Reform in the Early Twenty-First Century; 5. Can't We All Just Get Along? Civility and Bipartisanship in Congress; 6. Is Persuasion a Lost Art? How Members of Congress Can Stop Shouting and Start Persuading; Contributors.

In 1964, as the polarizing Civil Rights Act made its way through the House and Senate, and Congress navigated one of the most tumultuous eras in American history, a Harris Poll put the institution's approval rating at 60 percent. Why then, fifty years later, has the public's approval of Congress eroded to an all-time low of 10 percent? Working Congress: A Guide for Senators, Representatives, and Citizens seeks to isolate the reasons for Congress's staggering decline in public opinion, and to propose remedies to reverse the grave dysfunction in America's most important political institution. Aid.

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