W&L’s Brian Alexander Talks Congress in Recent Article The article is a part of his forthcoming book, “A Social Theory of Congress: Legislative Norms in the Twenty-First Century.”

By Erica Turman
July 25, 2019

Brian Alexander

Brian Alexander, assistant professor of politics at Washington and Lee University, recently published an article on LegBranch.org titled “The House is more courteous than you might imagine.”

The article is a part of his forthcoming book, “A Social Theory of Congress: Legislative Norms in the Twenty-First Century,” which he plans to finish this fall.

In the piece, Alexander writes “Consistent with qualitative findings in interviews, members are, in fact, generally courteous toward one another.”