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Why Not Parties?

Party Effects in the United States Senate

Autor: Nathan W. Monroe

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Legare: Carte broșată

Editura: The University of Chicago Press

Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern

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Current research on the U.S. House of Representatives largely focuses on the effects of partisanship...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Nathan W. Monroe

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2008

Pagini

282

EAN

9780226534893

ISBN

0226534898

Enbook ID

04547576

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

397

Dimensiuni

155 x 23 x 2

Descriere completă

Current research on the U.S. House of Representatives largely focuses on the effects of partisanship, but the strikingly less frequent studies of the Senate still tend to treat parties as secondary considerations in a chamber that gives its members far more individual leverage than congressmen have. In response to the recent increase in senatorial partisanship, "Why Not Parties?" corrects this imbalance with a series of original essays that focus exclusively on the effects of parties in the workings of the upper chamber.Illuminating the growing significance of these effects, the contributors explore three major areas, including the electoral foundations of parties, partisan procedural advantage, and partisan implications for policy. In the process, they investigate such issues as whether party discipline can overcome Senate mechanisms that invest the most power in individuals and small groups; how parties influence the making of legislation and the distribution of pork; and whether voters punish senators for not toeing party lines. The result is a timely corrective to the notion that parties don't matter in the Senate - which the contributors reveal is far more similar to the lower chamber than conventional wisdom suggests.