This essay surveys the literature on legislative staffing, especially research published in
1970 and thereafter, a period of extensive change and reform in legislatures. Within this …

In this article, I survey the literature on legislative staffing from 1983 to the present. Recent
studies of the staffs of the US Congress, US state legislatures, and legislatures outside of the …

One of the recent cottage industries in the scholarship on Congress has concentrated on
congressional staff-its role, impact on policy, impact on the institution, and its tremendous …

The names are familiar from the nightly news—the Senate Centrist Coalition, the Coalition
(Blue Dogs), the Black Caucus. But what exactly are these groups, and what role do they …

Will public administration ever resolve the conundrum presented by the
politics/administration dichotomy? Are politics and administration separate functions or is …

Individual members of the US Congress work with staffs ranging in size from a minimum of
18 to a maximum of well over 100. Each member has come to preside over a personnel …

Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why?
In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason …

Social media is changing the business of representation in the Senate. If you want to know
what your senator is up to, you don't need a newspaper, just your phone. Some senators are …

Although the behavioral approach in political science has profoundly affected the analysis of
legislatures, focusing on individual level data to the seeming exclusion of organizational …

Richard Fenno first coined the term home style to describe the ways in which members of
Congress cultivate the voters of their home constituencies. He suggested that incumbents …