Agenda Setting in the U.s. Senate - Costly Consideration and Majority Party Advantage

Informationen zum Autor Chris Den Hartog is an assistant professor of political science at California Polytechnic State University. He has published articles and chapters about the legislative process in Congress, its evolution across history, and its effects on congressional policy making. Professor Den Hartog's work includes studies of the nineteenth-century House and the contemporary House and Senate. Nathan W. Monroe is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Merced. His work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Public Choice and State Politics and Policy Quarterly. Professor Monroe previously held faculty positions at Michigan State University and the University of the Pacific. Klappentext Proposes a new theory of Senate agenda setting. Zusammenfassung This book proposes a new theory of Senate agenda setting that reconciles a divide in literature between the conventional wisdom – in which party power is thought to be mostly undermined by Senate procedures and norms – and the apparent partisan bias in Senate decisions noted in recent empirical studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I: 1. Costly consideration and the majority's advantage; 2. The textbook senate and partisan policy influence; 3. The costly consideration agenda-setting theory; Part II. Consideration Costs in the Senate: 4. Committees and senate agenda setting; 5. Scheduling bills in the Senate; 6. Effects of filibusters; 7. Disposition of majority and minority amendments; 8. Killing amendments with tabling motions and points of order; 9. Effects of amendments; Part III. Testing the Costly-Consideration Theory: 10. Testing our model; 11. Implications of costly consideration; Appendix A: relaxing the model's assumptions; Appendix B: last actions and coding amendment disposition.

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• Authors: Chris Den Hartog, Chris (California Polytechnic State Un Den Hartog, Chris (California Polytechnic State University) Den Hartog, Chris Den (California Polytechnic State Un Hartog, Chris Den (California Polytechnic State University) Hartog, Chris Den Monroe Hartog, Nathan W. Monroe, Monroe Nathan W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.05.2011
• EAN: 9781107006461
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00646-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Constitution: government and the state