Reissued as part of the “Longman Classics in Political Science” series, Fenno's landmark study of eighteen members of Congress in their districts features a new Foreword by John Hibbing. Home Style, which won the 1979 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award and the 1980 D.B. Hardeman prize, has been re-issued in a "Longman Classics" Edition and features a new Foreword by renowned scholar John Hibbing of The University of Nebraska.

Home Style: House Members in Their Districts

Politics & Social Sciences

Fenno, Richard F.

Politics & Government

Pearson College Div

Describes the structure and activities of six committees of the House of Representatives and their Senate counterparts during the 1955-66 period and analyzes their influence on congressional policy making

Congressmen in Committees

Scott, Foresman Co.

Observes congressional representatives in their home districts and explores the ways in which their political behavior is affected by their attitudes toward their constituencies

At a moment when Congress is widely viewed as hyper-partisan and dysfunctional, Richard Fenno provides a variegated picture of American representational politics. The Challenge of Congressional Representation offers an up-close-and-personal look at the complex relationship between members of Congress and their constituents back home.
When not crafting policy in Washington, the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are busy assessing and building voter support in their districts. Fenno delves into the activities of five members of the House―Republicans representing Pennsylvania and New York, and Democrats from California, Florida, and Illinois. Spanning the ideological spectrum, these former and current representatives are senior lawmakers and rookie back-benchers from both urban and rural areas. Fenno travels with them in their own political territories, watching and talking with them, conducting interviews, and meeting aides and constituents. He illuminates the all-consuming nature of representational work―the complicated lives of House members shuttling back and forth between home and Capitol, building and maintaining networks, and making compromises. Agreeing to talk on the record without protective anonymity, these elected House members emerge as real personalities, at once praiseworthy and fallible.
While voting patterns and policy analysis constitute an important window into the legislative process, the nonquantifiable human element that political scientists so frequently overlook is the essence of negotiation. Fenno focuses our attention on how congressional leaders negotiate with constituents as well as with colleagues.

The Challenge of Congressional Representation

History

Americas

Harvard University Press

Fenno (political science, U. of Rochester) looks at political campaigns from the perspective of the candidate, revealing insights gleaned from his travels with ten US senators as they campaigned in their home states. He examines their views on pursuing a career, campaigning for office, and building constituency connections, discussing their motivations and strategies. For students and general readers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation (JULIAN J ROTHBAUM DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES)

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

However much politicians are demeaned and denounced in modern American society, our democracy could not work without them. For this reason, says Richard Fenno, their activities warrant our attention. In his pioneering book, Home Style, Fenno demonstrated that a close look at politicians at work in their districts can tell us a great deal about the process of representation. Here, Fenno employs a similarly revealing grassroots approach to explore how patterns of representation have changed in recent decades. Fenno focuses on two members of the U.S. House of Representatives who represented the same west-central Georgia district at different times: Jack Flynt, who served from the 1950s to the 1970s, and Mac Collins, who has held the seat in the 1990s. His on-the-scene observation of their differing representational styles--Flynt focuses on people, Collins on policy--reveals the ways in which social and demographic changes inspire shifts in representational strategies. More than a study of representational change in one district, Congress at the Grassroots also helps illuminate the larger subject of political change in the South and in the nation as a whole.

Congress at the Grassroots: Representational Change in the South, 1970-1998

The University of North Carolina Press

The elections of 1994 produced the first Republican-controlled Congress in 40 years. What effect did being the minority party for so long have on the activities of the new House of Representatives' majority? In this book, Richard Fenno makes the case that four decades out of power left Republicans without the experience they needed to properly interpret their electoral victory... or govern the country.
 This inexperience produced serious consequences for the party and the American political system, including the confrontational leadership of Newt Gingrich, the deterioration of cross-party civility, the general support for term limits, and an accelerated loss of public confidence in Congress.
 And there was more. Although all the evidence pointed to voters' repudiation of the Democrats, the Republicans saw their victory as a mandate for wholesale change—a Republican Revolution. Instead of trying to make careful, incremental changes, their inexperience and aggressive "let's get it all, and let's get it now" tactics cost them their golden opportunity and cleared the way for the reelection of President Clinton.
 This book provides a timely focus on the attitudes and agendas of the inexperienced Republican freshman class and its contribution to the problem-plagued attempts to use the election campaign Contract with America as a blueprint for governing.

Learning to Govern: An Institutional View of the 104th Congress

Brookings Institution Press

Describes Dan Quayle's successful Senatorial campaign, observes his work in Congress, and examines the relationship between campaigns and governing

The Making of a Senator: Dan Quayle

Social Sciences

Cq Pr

Biographies & Memoirs

The Presidential Odyssey of John Glenn

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Home Style: House Members in Their Districts

Congressmen in Committees

Home Style: House Members in Their Districts

The Challenge of Congressional Representation

Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation (JULIAN J ROTHBAUM DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES)

Congress at the Grassroots: Representational Change in the South, 1970-1998

Learning to Govern: An Institutional View of the 104th Congress

The Making of a Senator: Dan Quayle

The Making of a Senator: Dan Quayle

The Presidential Odyssey of John Glenn