Publisher's Synopsis
The author of this book argues that the structure of America's capitalist economy constrains progressive Congressional action. Asserting that neither pluralism nor institutionalism adequately explains Congressional outcomes, he offers an alternative Marxist analysis that recognizes how political struggle exists within limits posed by the need to maintain capitalist prosperity.;The book concludes with a call for a politics of protest that uses Congressional offices as levers for moving the public, while avoiding the false hope that inclusion in Congress can lead oppressed groups to the full integration into the institutions of power posited by pluralism.
