Politics in the USA, Sixth Edition

Index 311

Communications Act (1934) 183
Communist Party USA 49
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty 278,
280
Congress 120–47; and the
administration 128; and civil
service 204; committee system
132–4; conference committees
134–5; constituency pressures 127;
control functions 144–6; control
of finance 141–4, 174; and health
care reform 241–2; House Rules
Committee 136–8; and independent
regulatory commissions 198–200; and
interest groups 115–18; investigatory
powers 144–6; judiciary and
231–2; leadership 129–30; legislative
process 136–7; legislative veto
140; organisation 128–38; party
committees 135–6; party discipline
and party unity 122–5; and policy-
making 146–7; powers of 120–1;
seniority system 130; and separation
of powers 128; Speaker 130–1; two-
party system 122–5; and veto power
139–40; voting behaviour 122–3,
125–8; war power 146
Congress of Racial Equality 107, 116
Congressional Budget and
Impoundment Control Act (1974)
143
Congressional Budget Office 144
Congressional Quarterly 123, 124
conservatism 50–4
conservative coalition in Congress 127
Constitution of the United States 1,
222; Commerce Clause; and politics
13–14; text of 286–302; Bill of
Rights 189; First Amendment 189,
190, 191; Fifth Amendment 210;
Eighth Amendment 248; Thirteenth
Amendment 69; Fourteenth
Amendment 69, 213–14, 216,
218, 230; Fifteenth Amendment
69; Eighteenth Amendment 107;
ratification 7; Twenty-Second
Amendment 176–7; Twenty-Fourth
Amendment 98; see also judiciary
Constitutional Convention (1787) 2
Coughlin, Father Charles 65
Council of Economic Advisers 161,
169–70
Council of Local Gas Companies 110
courts, structure of 222–4

Cuba 264; and Helms–Burton Act 273–5

Cuban-American National Foundation

274

Cuban Missile Crisis 273

Dahl, Robert A. 17, 44

Daley, Mayor Richard J. 83

Davis, Governor Gray 43

Davis, John W. 83

Dayton v. Dulles (1957) 229

Deacons for Defense and Justice 65

Dean, Governor Howard 80, 98, 186

death penalty 247–50

Defense Department 104

Deficit Reduction Act (2006) 245

democracy 237–9

departments, executive 196–8

Detainee Treatment Act (2005) 232, 253

Dewey, Thomas E. 83

Director of National Intelligence 167

district attorneys 224

district courts 223–4

divided government 94–5, 242–5, 284

Dole, Senator Bob: election of 1996 25,

37; and healthcare reform 241–2;

primary elections 77

domestic policy 234–58

Domestic Policy Council 162, 165

Dominican Republic 263

Douglas, Justice William O. 228, 230,

248

Doumar, Judge Robert G. 252

Economic Policy Council 165

Edwards, Senator John 80

Ehrlichman, John D. 163, 164

Eisenhower, President Dwight 40, 92,

158, 163, 173; election of 1952 38;

election of 1956 30, 35; and military-

industrial complex 20–1; Vietnam

War 261–2

elections 74–102; the campaign 87–92,

185; campaign finances 99–101;

caucuses 75–7; coat-tails effect

95–6; long ballot 99; and the media

99–100, 185; national conventions 79,

82–7; primary elections 75–82; state

elections 97–9; ticket-splitting 28,

38–41, 71, 97; suburbia 28; turnout

37–8; see also Electoral College

elections, congressional 94–7; mid-term

94–5; (2006) 284–5

elections, primary 75–82; (1960) 79;

(1968) 79, 91; (1980) 79; (1992)