Esteemed Colleagues

Burdett A. Loomis is professor of political science at the University of Kansas.

"Recommended for general readers, undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and faculty." —P. Fisher, Monmouth University, Choice, Vol. 38, No. 10, 6/1/2001|"This timely collection of essays from many of the leading scholars of the U.S. Senate provides some insight into how the evenly divided Senate of the 107th Congress is likely to conduct itself." —David Canon, Congress and the Presidency, 4/1/2001|"Despite increasing individualism, declining trust, and rising partisanship, the contributors offer hope that the nature of the institution is such that it can still be the home of fruitful policy discussion and deliberation." —Larry S. Luton (ed.), Public Administration Review, 8/1/2001|"'Esteemed Colleagues' makes an important contribution to the literature on Congress by examining understudied and underappreciated characteristics of the Senate. It is a book written for a general reading audience and would be an exemplary work to be assigned in an upper-division or graduate course on Congress and the American legislative process." —Patrick Fisher, Monmouth University, Perspectives on Political Science, 6/1/2001|"All eleven essays offer insights into the operations of the contemporary Senate and provide material that will be useful to students and scholars alike.... The quality of the individual essays ensures that 'EsteemedColleagues' makes a valuable contribution to the literature on Congress." —Christopher J. Bailey, Keele University, The American Review of Politics, 11/1/2000|"Essays on how a decline in civility and an increase in partisanship have affected the deliberative and representative duties of the Senate." — The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/12/2001|"This book's tone is neither cynical nor exasperated. Instead, it offers a realistic approach to understanding [the U.S. Senate]." —Ronald M. Peters, Jr., University of Oklahoma, Journal of Politics, 11/1/2002