Too Weak to Govern - Majority Party Power and Appropriations in the Us Senate

Informationen zum Autor Peter Hanson is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Denver and a former staff member in the office of Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD). He has been interviewed by national and international media organizations, including the BBC, Agence France-Presse, the New York Times online's 'FiveThirtyEight' blog, USA Today, Minnesota Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio, Rocky Mountain PBS, and the Denver Post. He co-led the University of Denver's 'Colorado Voter Poll' in 2012. Klappentext In Too Weak to Govern, Peter Hanson demonstrates the majority party's important and underestimated ability to control the unruly Senate floor. Zusammenfassung Too Weak to Govern demonstrates the majority party's important and underestimated ability to control the unruly Senate floor. The majority party protects its reputation and eases the passage of the budget when it creates massive 'omnibus' spending bills! but its strategy has contributed to the breakdown of the federal budget process. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The limited-influence theory of the Senate; 2. Testing expectations; 3. The first wave (1979-87); 4. Back to the regular order; 5. The second wave (1995-2012); 6. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hanson, Peter (University of Denver) Hanson, Hanson Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2014
• EAN: 9781107063150
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06315-0
• No. of pages: 208
• 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 & the state, Constitution: government and the state