Why not parties?
Subtitle: party effects in the United States Senate
By: edited by Nathan W. Monroe, Jason M. Roberts, and David W. Rohde.
Contributors: Monroe, Nathan W.; Roberts, Jason M.; Rohde, David W.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780226534879; 9780226534893
Subjects: United States. -- Congress. -- Senate -- Congresses; Political parties -- United States -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Current research on the U.S. House of Representatives largely focuses on the effects of partisanship, but studies of the Senate still tend to treat parties as secondary considerations in a chamber that gives its members far more individual leverage. This volume corrects this imbalance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.