Party, process, and political change in Congress
Subtitle: further new perspectives on the history of Congress
By: edited by David W. Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins.
Contributors: Brady, David W.; McCubbins, Mathew D. 1956-
Series: Social science history
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9780804755900; 9780804755917
Subjects: United States. -- Congress -- History; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: American political geography / David Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins; title: External influences on Congress; title: Progressive Era; title: What did the direct primary do to party loyalty in Congress? / Stephen Ansolabehere, Shigeo Hirano, and James M. Snyder; title: The effects of Presidential elections on party control of the senate under indirect and direct elections / Erik J. Engstrom and Samuel Kernell; title: The dynamics of Senate voting: ideological shirking and the 17th Amendment / William Bernhard and Brian R. Sala; title: The electoral connection: career building and constituency representation in the U.S. Senate in the age of indirect elections / Wendy J. Schiller; title: The first "southern strategy": the Republican Party and contested-election cases in the late 19th-century house / Jeffery A. Jenkins; title: Postwar period; title: Explaining the ideological polarization of the congressional parties since the 1970s / Gary C. Jacobson; title: D is not enough: measuring conditional party government, 1887-2002 / John H. Aldrich, David W. Rohde, and Michael W. Tofias; title: Who parties? Floor voting, district ideology, and electoral margins / Brandice Canes-Wrone, Julia Rabinovich, and Craig Volden; title: Internal changes in Congress; title: 19th-century development of Congress; title: Architect or tactician? henry Clay and the institutional development of the U.S. House of Representatives / Charles Stewart; title: Committee composition in the absence of a strong speaker / Chris Den Hartog and Craig Goodman; title: Roll-call behavior and career advancement: analyzing committee assignments from Reconstruction to the New Deal / Craig Goodman and Timothy P. Nokken; title: The evolution of agenda-setting institutions in Congress: path dependency in House and Senate institutional development / Jason M. Roberts and Steven S. Smith; title: Progressive Era; title: Filibuster reform in the Senate, 1913-1917 / Gregory Koger; title: Cloture reform reconsidered / Gregory J. Wawro and Eric Schickler; title: Candidates, parties, and the politics of U.S. House elections across time / Jamie L. Carson and Jason M. Roberts; title: Speaker David Henderson and the partisan era of the U.S. House / Charles J. Finocchiaro and David W. Rohde; title: Postwar period; title: The motion to recommit in the House: the creation, evisceration, and restoration of a minority right / Donald R. Wolfensberger; title: The motion to recommit in the U.S. House of Representatives / Gary W. Cox, Chris Den Hartog, and Mathew D. McCubbins; title: The motion to recommit: more than an amendment? / D. Roderick Kiewiet and Kevin Roust; title: An evolving end game: partisan collusion in conference committees, 1953-2003 / Robert Parks Van Houweling; title: Postbellum trends; title: Bicameral resolution in Congress, 1863-2002 / Elizabeth Rybicki; title: The electoral disconnection: roll-call behavior in lame-duck sessions of the House of Representatives, 1879-1933 / Timothy P. Nokken; title: Policy; title: Measuring significant legislation, 1877-1948 / Joshua D. Clinton and John S. Lapinksi; title: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: an instrumental interpretation / Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Barry R. Weingast; title: Power rejected: Congress and bankruptcy in the early republic / Erik Berglöf and Howard Rosenthal; title: Afterword / David Brady and Mathew D. McCubbins; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index.