This course focuses on the legislative branch of the U.S. government. It examines topics such as the constitutional powers of Congress, the relations between Congress and the other branches of the federal government and the states, and the changing structure and internal politics of Congress.
Instructors: Andrew E. Busch is Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and author of Reagan's Victory: The Presidential Election of 1980 And the Rise of the Right. Randall Strahan is Professor of Political Science at Emory University.