Explorations in the Evolution of Congress
Explorations in the Evolution of Congress
H. Douglas Price, 207pp, Book #3842, $21.95
Over the last three decades, the late H. Douglas Price expressed some of the most interesting ideas in the flourishing field of Congressional behavior. Here, collected for the first time, are most of Price’s essays on the history and structure of Congress, essays that have had an enormous influence on students of Congress everywhere.
Price was a gifted scholar and teacher, widely admired for the breadth of his empirical knowledge, his pedagogical inventiveness, and his capacity to crunch the myriad historical details effortlessly at his command into plausible reconstructions of trends in institutional behavior. These wonderful gifts exercised a significant intellectual influence on his students and on his contemporaries in congressional studies.
This book preserves a record of his influence so readers can admire the sparkle of one of our most creative minds and appreciate his contributions to our common fund of knowledge. Doug was exceptionally kind to students. He was an uncommonly thoughtful colleague as well, making it a practice to send flurries of aptly chosen newspaper and magazine clippings to friends on topics that he knew interested them. This book, Doug’s last flurry of clippings, is meant as a gift to future students of Congress wherein they can glimpse for themselves the strategic value of his contribution.