Party Discipline in the Contemporary Congress
Author | : Kathryn L. Pearson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Party discipline |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kathryn L. Pearson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Party discipline |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jacob R. Straus |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781442258723 |
Navigating Congress in the age of partisanship / Jacob R. Straus and Matthew E. Glassman -- Drafting the law : players, power, and processes / Scott Levy -- Keeping the team together : explaining party discipline and dissent in the U.S. Congress / Matthew Green and Briana Bee -- The motion to recommit in the U.S. House / Jennifer Hayes Clark -- Evolution of the reconciliation process, 1980-2015 / James V. Saturno -- Post-committee adjustment in the contemporary House : the use of Rules Committee prints / Mark J. Oleszek -- Longitudinal analysis of one-minute speeches in the House of Representatives / Colleen J. Shogan and Matthew E. Glassman -- A good leader never blames his tools : the evolving majority-party toolkit in the U.S. Senate / Aaron S. King, Frank J. Orlando, and David W. Rohde -- The electoral politics of procedural votes in the U.S. Senate / Joel Sievert -- Partisanship, filibustering, and reform in the Senate / Gregory Koger -- Irregular order : examining the changing congressional amending process / Michael S. Lynch, Anthony J. Madonna, and Rachel Surminsky -- From base closings to the budget : exceptions to the filibuster in the U.S. Senate / Molly E. Reynolds -- Intraparty caucus formation in the U.S. Congress / James Wallner -- Gender and party politics in a polarized era / Michele L. Swers -- The government shutdown of 2013 : a perspective / Walter J. Oleszek
Author | : Kathryn Pearson |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2015-08-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472119613 |
A breakthrough study that looks at the disciplinary measures which party leaders employ to command loyalty from members
Author | : Reuven Y. Hazan |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Comparative government |
ISBN | : 9780415360142 |
This book - previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies - asks why legislative unity is one of the distinguishing features of modern political parties.
Author | : Eric Schickler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0191628255 |
No legislature in the world has a greater influence over its nation's public affairs than the US Congress. The Congress's centrality in the US system of government has placed research on Congress at the heart of scholarship on American politics. Generations of American government scholars working in a wide range of methodological traditions have focused their analysis on understanding Congress, both as a lawmaking and a representative institution. The purpose of this volume is to take stock of this impressive and diverse literature, identifying areas of accomplishment and promising directions for future work. The editors have commissioned 37 chapters by leading scholars in the field, each chapter critically engages the scholarship focusing on a particular aspect of congressional politics, including the institution's responsiveness to the American public, its procedures and capacities for policymaking, its internal procedures and development, relationships between the branches of government, and the scholarly methodologies for approaching these topics. The Handbook also includes chapters addressing timely questions, including partisan polarization, congressional war powers, and the supermajoritarian procedures of the contemporary Senate. Beyond simply bringing readers up to speed on the current state of research, the volume offers critical assessments of how each literature has progressed - or failed to progress - in recent decades. The chapters identify the major questions posed by each line of research and assess the degree to which the answers developed in the literature are persuasive. The goal is not simply to tell us where we have been as a field, but to set an agenda for research on Congress for the next decade. The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are a set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of scholarship on American politics. Each volume focuses on a particular aspect of the field. The project is under the General Editorship of George C. Edwards III, and distinguished specialists in their respective fields edit each volume. The Handbooks aim not just to report on the discipline, but also to shape it as scholars critically assess the scholarship on a topic and propose directions in which it needs to move. The series is an indispensable reference for anyone working in American politics. General Editor for The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics: George C. Edwards III
Author | : Shane Martin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 785 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199653011 |
Legislatures are arguably the most important political institution in modern democracies. The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by some of the most distinguished legislative scholars in political science, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description and critical assessment of the state of the art in this key area.
Author | : James M. Curry |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2020-10-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 022671649X |
To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced the bipartisan comity of past eras. If the parties cannot get everything they want in national policymaking, then they prefer gridlock and stalemate to compromise. Or, at least, that is the conventional wisdom. In The Limits of Party, James M. Curry and Frances E. Lee challenge this conventional wisdom. By constructing legislative histories of congressional majority parties’ attempts to enact their policy agendas in every congress since the 1980s and by drawing on interviews with Washington insiders, the authors analyze the successes and failures of congressional parties to enact their legislative agendas. ? Their conclusions will surprise many congressional observers: Even in our time of intense party polarization, bipartisanship remains the key to legislative success on Capitol Hill. Congressional majority parties today are neither more nor less successful at enacting their partisan agendas. They are not more likely to ram though partisan laws or become mired in stalemate. Rather, the parties continue to build bipartisan coalitions for their legislative priorities and typically compromise on their original visions for legislation in order to achieve legislative success.
Author | : Shaun Bowler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Brings together empirical studies of the internal cohesiveness of political party groups in European parliaments and the leadership behavior that leads to disciplined parties in parliament, in sections on theories and definitions, the "Westminster Model," established continental European systems, newly emerging systems, and parliamentary discipline and coalition governments. Chapters originated as papers presented at a spring 1995 workshop held in Bordeaux, France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : C. Lawrence Evans |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2018-08-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472123874 |
The party whips are essential components of the U.S. legislative system, responsible for marshalling party votes and keeping House and Senate party members in line. In The Whips, C. Lawrence Evans offers a comprehensive exploration of coalition building and legislative strategy in the U.S. House and Senate, ranging from the relatively bipartisan, committee-dominated chambers of the 1950s to the highly polarized congresses of the 2000s. In addition to roll call votes and personal interviews with lawmakers and staff, Evans examines the personal papers of dozens of former leaders of the House and Senate, especially former whips. These records allowed Evans to create a database of nearly 1,500 internal leadership polls on hundreds of significant bills across five decades of recent congressional history. The result is a rich and sweeping understanding of congressional party leaders at work. Since the whips provide valuable political intelligence, they are essential to understanding how coalitions are forged and deals are made on Capitol Hill.
Author | : Frances Rosenbluth |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2018-10-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300241054 |
How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones.Yet voters keep getting angrier.There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making have made governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents’ long-term interests. They argue that to restore confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.