Jordan M Ragusa Congress in Reverse Hardcover sku-133572079

Congress in Reverse: Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present is an Edition 1 hardcover listed under United States History Books, SKU sku-133572079. Jordan M Ragusa and Nathaniel A. Birkhead examine when and why Congress repeals laws, including why Republicans failed to repeal the bulk of the Affordable Care Act after gaining control of Congress and the White House in 2017.

That failure followed years of repeal pledges and more than fifty symbolic votes. The authors argue that repeals are most common when parties agree on the issue and the majority party takes control of Congress after a long period in the minority. They use repeal to study legislative behavior alongside lawmaking.