Minority rights, majority rule: partisanship and the development of Congress

Minority Rights, Majority Rule seeks to explain a phenomenon evident to most observers of the U.S. Congress. In the House of Representatives, majority parties rule and minorities are seldom able to influence national policy making. In the Senate, minorities quite often call the shots, empowered by t...

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1. Verfasser: Binder, Sarah A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 1997
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:Minority Rights, Majority Rule seeks to explain a phenomenon evident to most observers of the U.S. Congress. In the House of Representatives, majority parties rule and minorities are seldom able to influence national policy making. In the Senate, minorities quite often call the shots, empowered by the filibuster to frustrate the majority. Why did the two chambers develop such distinctive legislative styles? Conventional wisdom suggests that differences in the size and workload of the House and Senate led the two chambers to develop very different rules of procedure. Binder offers an alternative, partisan theory to explain the creation and suppression of minority rights, showing that contests between partisan coalitions have throughout congressional history altered the distribution of procedural rights. Most importantly, new majorities inherit procedural choices made in the past
This institutional dynamic has fueled the power of partisan majorities in the House but stopped them in their tracks in the Senate
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Beschreibung:XIII, 236 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:9780521582391
0521582393
9780521587921
0521587921

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